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authorPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>2013-04-30 19:14:54 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-05-01 08:12:57 -0700
commit8ac6ed5857c8d583e0dc2ab2165966ab143930ad (patch)
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parent852028af861ed6c7ab7e73053dd664eb28e55200 (diff)
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ipc: implement MSG_COPY as a new receive mode
Teach the helper routines about MSG_COPY so that msgtyp is preserved as the message number to copy. The security functions affected by this change were audited and no additional changes are necessary. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc')
-rw-r--r--ipc/msg.c22
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/msg.c b/ipc/msg.c
index b46473074662..7c209b4f5e38 100644
--- a/ipc/msg.c
+++ b/ipc/msg.c
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ struct msg_sender {
#define SEARCH_EQUAL 2
#define SEARCH_NOTEQUAL 3
#define SEARCH_LESSEQUAL 4
+#define SEARCH_NUMBER 5
#define msg_ids(ns) ((ns)->ids[IPC_MSG_IDS])
@@ -583,6 +584,7 @@ static int testmsg(struct msg_msg *msg, long type, int mode)
switch(mode)
{
case SEARCH_ANY:
+ case SEARCH_NUMBER:
return 1;
case SEARCH_LESSEQUAL:
if (msg->m_type <=type)
@@ -738,6 +740,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(msgsnd, int, msqid, struct msgbuf __user *, msgp, size_t, msgsz,
static inline int convert_mode(long *msgtyp, int msgflg)
{
+ if (msgflg & MSG_COPY)
+ return SEARCH_NUMBER;
/*
* find message of correct type.
* msgtyp = 0 => get first.
@@ -774,14 +778,10 @@ static long do_msg_fill(void __user *dest, struct msg_msg *msg, size_t bufsz)
* This function creates new kernel message structure, large enough to store
* bufsz message bytes.
*/
-static inline struct msg_msg *prepare_copy(void __user *buf, size_t bufsz,
- int msgflg, long *msgtyp,
- unsigned long *copy_number)
+static inline struct msg_msg *prepare_copy(void __user *buf, size_t bufsz)
{
struct msg_msg *copy;
- *copy_number = *msgtyp;
- *msgtyp = 0;
/*
* Create dummy message to copy real message to.
*/
@@ -797,9 +797,7 @@ static inline void free_copy(struct msg_msg *copy)
free_msg(copy);
}
#else
-static inline struct msg_msg *prepare_copy(void __user *buf, size_t bufsz,
- int msgflg, long *msgtyp,
- unsigned long *copy_number)
+static inline struct msg_msg *prepare_copy(void __user *buf, size_t bufsz)
{
return ERR_PTR(-ENOSYS);
}
@@ -818,15 +816,13 @@ long do_msgrcv(int msqid, void __user *buf, size_t bufsz, long msgtyp,
int mode;
struct ipc_namespace *ns;
struct msg_msg *copy = NULL;
- unsigned long copy_number = 0;
ns = current->nsproxy->ipc_ns;
if (msqid < 0 || (long) bufsz < 0)
return -EINVAL;
if (msgflg & MSG_COPY) {
- copy = prepare_copy(buf, min_t(size_t, bufsz, ns->msg_ctlmax),
- msgflg, &msgtyp, &copy_number);
+ copy = prepare_copy(buf, min_t(size_t, bufsz, ns->msg_ctlmax));
if (IS_ERR(copy))
return PTR_ERR(copy);
}
@@ -861,8 +857,8 @@ long do_msgrcv(int msqid, void __user *buf, size_t bufsz, long msgtyp,
if (mode == SEARCH_LESSEQUAL &&
walk_msg->m_type != 1) {
msgtyp = walk_msg->m_type - 1;
- } else if (msgflg & MSG_COPY) {
- if (copy_number == msg_counter)
+ } else if (mode == SEARCH_NUMBER) {
+ if (msgtyp == msg_counter)
break;
msg = ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
} else