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SubjectRe: [PATCH] staging: ft1000: Copy from user into correct data
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:14:26AM +0100, Belisko Marek wrote:
> Hi Steven,
>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > While doing a ktest.pl I used a MIN_CONFIG that had STAGING enabled, and
> > a randconfig with CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS enabled caught
> > the following bug:
> >
> > In file included from /home/rostedt/work/autotest/nobackup/linux-test.git/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:571:0,
> >                 from /home/rostedt/work/autotest/nobackup/linux-test.git/include/linux/poll.h:14,
> >                 from /home/rostedt/work/autotest/nobackup/linux-test.git/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_chdev.c:32:
> > In function 'copy_from_user',
> >    inlined from 'ft1000_ChIoctl' at /home/rostedt/work/autotest/nobackup/linux-test.git/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_chdev.c:702:36:
> > /home/rostedt/work/autotest/nobackup/linux-test.git/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h:212:26: error: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute error: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
> >
> >
> > Looking at the code it was obvious what the problem was. The pointer
> > dpram_data was being allocated but the address was being written to.
> > Looking at the comment above the code shows that it use to write into an
> > element of that pointer where the '&' is appropriate. But now that it
> > writes to the pointer itself, we need to remove the '&' otherwise we
> > write over the pointer and not into the data it points to.
> Good catch but anyway this interface is removed. Already send patches to Greg-KH
> but there was some patch problem so they're not applied to next yet.

But this patch is correct, and I don't have your other patches in my
inbox, so I'm going to apply this one.

Please rebase your fixes on the next linux-next and all should be fine.

thanks,

greg k-h
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