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authorPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>2010-04-07 19:23:40 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-04-09 10:09:50 -0700
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slab.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 12 deletions
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)))