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From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
To: thayne@c2.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, paul@codesourcery.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: x86_64 Best way to fix 'cast to pointer from integer of different size' problems?
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:18:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47320F6E.5060505@bellard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1194314417.5154.176.camel@phantasm.home.enterpriseandprosperity.com>

Hi,

Regarding the user memory access, here is my suggestion which should
minimize the changes:

- Keep __put_user() and __get_user() as you did.

- Remove put_user(), get_user(), copy_from_user() and copy_to_user()

- Modify the signal.c code so that it uses __put_user, __get_user and
lock/unlock_user.

- Modify lock_user() so that it automatically does access_ok() and
returns NULL if access_ok() fails.

- Test lock_user/lock_user_struct/... return value explicitely at every
call.

- Fix page_check_range() so that it handles writes to pages containing
code by calling page_unprotect when necessary (the current code can fail
in this case !).

- Suppress no longer needed page_unprotect_range() call in syscall.c.

- Suppress or fix tput/tget macros so that they do access_ok().

Regards,

Fabrice.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-07 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-03 17:26 [Qemu-devel] RFC: x86_64 Best way to fix 'cast to pointer from integer of different size' problems? TJ
2007-11-03 17:52 ` Paul Brook
2007-11-05 19:51   ` Thayne Harbaugh
2007-11-06  1:05     ` Paul Brook
2007-11-06  2:00       ` Thayne Harbaugh
2007-11-07 19:18         ` Fabrice Bellard [this message]
2007-11-07 20:59           ` Thayne Harbaugh
2007-11-07 23:02           ` Paul Brook
2007-11-12 16:42           ` Thayne Harbaugh
2007-11-06 20:05       ` Fabrice Bellard
2007-11-06 21:52         ` Stuart Anderson
2007-11-06 22:05           ` Paul Brook
2007-11-06 22:19             ` Stuart Anderson

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