Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 2 Oct 2009 18:36:55 GMT | From | tip-bot for Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Simplify bound checks in the MTRR code |
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Commit-ID: 11879ba5d9ab8174af9b9cefbb2396a54dfbf8c1 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/11879ba5d9ab8174af9b9cefbb2396a54dfbf8c1 Author: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> AuthorDate: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:51:50 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CommitDate: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 19:51:56 +0200
x86: Simplify bound checks in the MTRR code
The current bound checks for copy_from_user in the MTRR driver are not as obvious as they could be, and gcc agrees with that.
This patch simplifies the boundary checks to the point that gcc can now prove to itself that the copy_from_user() is never going past its bounds.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20090926205150.30797709@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
--- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/if.c | 17 ++++++++++++----- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/if.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/if.c index f04e725..3c1b12d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/if.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/if.c @@ -96,17 +96,24 @@ mtrr_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t len, loff_t * ppos) unsigned long long base, size; char *ptr; char line[LINE_SIZE]; + int length; size_t linelen; if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return -EPERM; - if (!len) - return -EINVAL; memset(line, 0, LINE_SIZE); - if (len > LINE_SIZE) - len = LINE_SIZE; - if (copy_from_user(line, buf, len - 1)) + + length = len; + length--; + + if (length > LINE_SIZE - 1) + length = LINE_SIZE - 1; + + if (length < 0) + return -EINVAL; + + if (copy_from_user(line, buf, length)) return -EFAULT; linelen = strlen(line);
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