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| author | Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> | 2013-10-21 09:44:37 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-10-26 12:27:37 +0200 |
| commit | 7a3d9b0f3abbea957b829cdfff8169872c575642 (patch) | |
| tree | 905bb8d2f62b5bee5b1523ed6dff08dc81551763 /arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c | |
| parent | 3df7b41aa5e7797f391d0a41f8b0dce1fe366a09 (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-7a3d9b0f3abbea957b829cdfff8169872c575642.zip op-kernel-dev-7a3d9b0f3abbea957b829cdfff8169872c575642.tar.gz | |
x86: Unify copy_to_user() and add size checking to it
Similarly to copy_from_user(), where the range check is to
protect against kernel memory corruption, copy_to_user() can
benefit from such checking too: Here it protects against kernel
information leaks.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5265059502000078000FC4F6@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c index c408d02..e2f5e21 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c @@ -654,14 +654,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__copy_from_user_ll_nocache_nozero); * Returns number of bytes that could not be copied. * On success, this will be zero. */ -unsigned long -copy_to_user(void __user *to, const void *from, unsigned long n) +unsigned long _copy_to_user(void __user *to, const void *from, unsigned n) { if (access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, to, n)) n = __copy_to_user(to, from, n); return n; } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(copy_to_user); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(_copy_to_user); /** * copy_from_user: - Copy a block of data from user space. |
