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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2016-10-10 23:02:51 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2016-10-10 23:02:51 -0400
commit3873691e5ab34fa26948643d038a2b98c4437298 (patch)
tree5327469194c2167830bce38b56a618b754cdbeea /mm/usercopy.c
parentc2050a454c7f123d7a57fa1d76ff61bd43643abb (diff)
parentaadfa8019e8114539cfa0b1eb2e5a9c83094a590 (diff)
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'ovl/rename2' into for-linus
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diff --git a/mm/usercopy.c b/mm/usercopy.c
index 089328f2b920..3c8da0af9695 100644
--- a/mm/usercopy.c
+++ b/mm/usercopy.c
@@ -207,8 +207,11 @@ static inline const char *check_heap_object(const void *ptr, unsigned long n,
* Some architectures (arm64) return true for virt_addr_valid() on
* vmalloced addresses. Work around this by checking for vmalloc
* first.
+ *
+ * We also need to check for module addresses explicitly since we
+ * may copy static data from modules to userspace
*/
- if (is_vmalloc_addr(ptr))
+ if (is_vmalloc_or_module_addr(ptr))
return NULL;
if (!virt_addr_valid(ptr))