> On Sep 20, 2017, at 11:26 PM, Al Viro wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:11:11PM -0400, Meng Xu wrote:
>> Since right after the user copy, we are going to
>> memset(&karg, 0, sizeof(karg)), I guess an access_ok check is enough?
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> access_ok() is *NOT* "will copy_from_user() succeed?" Not
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:11:11PM -0400, Meng Xu wrote:
> Since right after the user copy, we are going to
> memset(&karg, 0, sizeof(karg)), I guess an access_ok check is enough?
access_ok() is *NOT* "will copy_from_user() succeed?" Not even close.
On a bunch of architectures (sparc64, for one)
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:11:11PM -0400, Meng Xu wrote:
> Since right after the user copy, we are going to
> memset(&karg, 0, sizeof(karg)), I guess an access_ok check is enough?
The right thing is to remove it entirely.
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