slab: Generify kernel pointer validation

As suggested by Linus, introduce a kern_ptr_validate() helper that does some
sanity checks to make sure a pointer is a valid kernel pointer.  This is a
preparational step for fixing SLUB kmem_ptr_validate().

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 834db7b..f5712e8 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -186,6 +186,27 @@ void kzfree(const void *p)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzfree);
 
+int kern_ptr_validate(const void *ptr, unsigned long size)
+{
+	unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)ptr;
+	unsigned long min_addr = PAGE_OFFSET;
+	unsigned long align_mask = sizeof(void *) - 1;
+
+	if (unlikely(addr < min_addr))
+		goto out;
+	if (unlikely(addr > (unsigned long)high_memory - size))
+		goto out;
+	if (unlikely(addr & align_mask))
+		goto out;
+	if (unlikely(!kern_addr_valid(addr)))
+		goto out;
+	if (unlikely(!kern_addr_valid(addr + size - 1)))
+		goto out;
+	return 1;
+out:
+	return 0;
+}
+
 /*
  * strndup_user - duplicate an existing string from user space
  * @s: The string to duplicate