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authorJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2008-02-08 08:49:14 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-08 09:25:01 -0800
commit8811930dc74a503415b35c4a79d14fb0b408a361 (patch)
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parent66191dc622f5ff0a541524c4e96fdacfacfda206 (diff)
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splice: missing user pointer access verification
vmsplice_to_user() must always check the user pointer and length with access_ok() before copying. Likewise, for the slow path of copy_from_user_mmap_sem() we need to check that we may read from the user region. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Wojciech Purczynski <cliph@research.coseinc.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/splice.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/splice.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index 4ee49e86edde..14e2262c0a04 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -1179,6 +1179,9 @@ static int copy_from_user_mmap_sem(void *dst, const void __user *src, size_t n)
{
int partial;
+ if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, src, n))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
pagefault_disable();
partial = __copy_from_user_inatomic(dst, src, n);
pagefault_enable();
@@ -1387,6 +1390,11 @@ static long vmsplice_to_user(struct file *file, const struct iovec __user *iov,
break;
}
+ if (unlikely(!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, base, len))) {
+ error = -EFAULT;
+ break;
+ }
+
sd.len = 0;
sd.total_len = len;
sd.flags = flags;