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| author | Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> | 2010-04-07 19:23:40 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-04-09 10:09:50 -0700 |
| commit | fc1c183353a113c71675fecd0485e5aa0fe68d72 (patch) | |
| tree | 25fc50112c80402ab43bd86a3d6b6a99a0c3c128 | |
| parent | 4dc86ae1f925b2121d4e75058675895f83e54c71 (diff) | |
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slab: Generify kernel pointer validation
As suggested by Linus, introduce a kern_ptr_validate() helper that does some
sanity checks to make sure a pointer is a valid kernel pointer. This is a
preparational step for fixing SLUB kmem_ptr_validate().
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/slab.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/slab.c | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 21 |
3 files changed, 23 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h index 488446289cab..49d1247cd6d9 100644 --- a/include/linux/slab.h +++ b/include/linux/slab.h @@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ int kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *); void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *, void *); unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *); const char *kmem_cache_name(struct kmem_cache *); +int kern_ptr_validate(const void *ptr, unsigned long size); int kmem_ptr_validate(struct kmem_cache *cachep, const void *ptr); /* diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index a9f325b28bed..bac0f4fcc216 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -3602,21 +3602,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc_notrace); */ int kmem_ptr_validate(struct kmem_cache *cachep, const void *ptr) { - unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)ptr; - unsigned long min_addr = PAGE_OFFSET; - unsigned long align_mask = BYTES_PER_WORD - 1; unsigned long size = cachep->buffer_size; struct page *page; - if (unlikely(addr < min_addr)) - goto out; - if (unlikely(addr > (unsigned long)high_memory - size)) - goto out; - if (unlikely(addr & align_mask)) - goto out; - if (unlikely(!kern_addr_valid(addr))) - goto out; - if (unlikely(!kern_addr_valid(addr + size - 1))) + if (unlikely(!kern_ptr_validate(ptr, size))) goto out; page = virt_to_page(ptr); if (unlikely(!PageSlab(page))) diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index 834db7be240f..f5712e8964be 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -186,6 +186,27 @@ void kzfree(const void *p) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzfree); +int kern_ptr_validate(const void *ptr, unsigned long size) +{ + unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)ptr; + unsigned long min_addr = PAGE_OFFSET; + unsigned long align_mask = sizeof(void *) - 1; + + if (unlikely(addr < min_addr)) + goto out; + if (unlikely(addr > (unsigned long)high_memory - size)) + goto out; + if (unlikely(addr & align_mask)) + goto out; + if (unlikely(!kern_addr_valid(addr))) + goto out; + if (unlikely(!kern_addr_valid(addr + size - 1))) + goto out; + return 1; +out: + return 0; +} + /* * strndup_user - duplicate an existing string from user space * @s: The string to duplicate |