From: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: x86-cache-pollution-aware-__copy_from_user_ll.patch added to -mm
tree
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 16:23:33 -0400
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:16:00PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > unsigned long __copy_to_user_ll(void __user *to, const void *from,
> unsigned long n)
> > {
> > BUG_ON((long) n < 0);
>
> Ehh? It's unsigned. This will never be true.
It's to catch the user slipping in enormous lengths to
the user copy routines.
Sparc64 makes this check as well. From U3memcpy.S:
srlx %o2, 31, %g2
cmp %g2, 0
tne %xcc, 5
%o2 is the length, we make sure the upper 33-bits are clear.
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