Re: [PATCH 1/7] powerpc/spufs: simplify spufs core dumping
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: 2020-04-21 18:50:10
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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: 2020-04-21 18:50:10
Also in:
linux-fsdevel, lkml
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 05:41:58PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
static ssize_t spufs_proxydma_info_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
size_t len, loff_t *pos)
{
struct spu_context *ctx = file->private_data;
+ struct spu_proxydma_info info;
int ret;
+ if (len < sizeof(info))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ if (!access_ok(buf, len))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
ret = spu_acquire_saved(ctx);
if (ret)
return ret;
spin_lock(&ctx->csa.register_lock);
- ret = __spufs_proxydma_info_read(ctx, buf, len, pos);
+ __spufs_proxydma_info_read(ctx, &info);
+ ret = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, len, pos, &info, sizeof(info));IDGI... What's that access_ok() for? If you are using simple_read_from_buffer(), the damn thing goes through copy_to_user(). Why bother with separate access_ok() here?