Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Nov 2016 16:41:17 +0100 | From | Johan Hovold <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] USB: serial: fix invalid user-pointer checks |
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On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 03:13:13PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 13:26 +0100, Johan Hovold wrote: > > Drop invalid user-pointer checks from ioctl handlers. > > > > A NULL-pointer can be valid in user space and copy_to_user() takes > > care > > of sanity checking. > > Shouldn't we bail out early in these cases?
I don't think it's worth it, and this is also the general pattern for such ioctls. The added overhead for an error case like this is really negligible.
Thanks, Johan
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