linux/arch/powerpc
H. Peter Anvin c41d68a513 compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok()
compat_alloc_user_space() expects the caller to independently call
access_ok() to verify the returned area.  A missing call could
introduce problems on some architectures.

This patch incorporates the access_ok() check into
compat_alloc_user_space() and also adds a sanity check on the length.
The existing compat_alloc_user_space() implementations are renamed
arch_compat_alloc_user_space() and are used as part of the
implementation of the new global function.

This patch assumes NULL will cause __get_user()/__put_user() to either
fail or access userspace on all architectures.  This should be
followed by checking the return value of compat_access_user_space()
for NULL in the callers, at which time the access_ok() in the callers
can also be removed.

Reported-by: Ben Hawkes <hawkes@sota.gen.nz>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2010-09-14 16:08:45 -07:00
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boot Merge remote branch 'jwb/merge' into merge 2010-08-24 14:36:45 +10:00
configs powerpc: Trim defconfigs 2010-08-09 11:19:16 +10:00
include/asm compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok() 2010-09-14 16:08:45 -07:00
kernel powerpc: Don't use kernel stack with translation off 2010-08-31 11:35:13 +10:00
kvm Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2010-08-05 09:03:46 -07:00
lib Merge commit 'paulus-perf/master' into next 2010-07-09 11:25:48 +10:00
math-emu
mm powerpc: Export memstart_addr and kernstart_addr on ppc64 2010-08-24 15:26:26 +10:00
oprofile powerpc/oprofile: Don't build server oprofile drivers on 64-bit BookE 2010-07-14 14:13:54 +10:00
platforms powerpc/pseries: Correct rtas_data_buf locking in dlpar code 2010-09-02 10:07:38 +10:00
sysdev powerpc/85xx: Add P1021 PCI IDs and quirks 2010-08-31 16:44:24 -05:00
xmon Input: sysrq - drop tty argument from sysrq ops handlers 2010-08-19 22:07:06 -07:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'timers-timekeeping-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-08-06 13:18:29 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile powerpc: Fix typo in uImage target 2010-08-24 15:26:32 +10:00
relocs_check.pl