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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2014-04-06 14:03:05 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2014-11-19 16:22:59 -0500
commit666547ff591cebdedc4679bf6b1b3f3383a8dea3 (patch)
tree59a5eadc4a3a1ca74ca7e6f36cb55f9808602368 /net/compat.c
parentdaaf427c6ab392bedcd018e326b2ffa1e1110cd6 (diff)
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separate kernel- and userland-side msghdr
Kernel-side struct msghdr is (currently) using the same layout as userland one, but it's not a one-to-one copy - even without considering 32bit compat issues, we have msg_iov, msg_name and msg_control copied to kernel[1]. It's fairly localized, so we get away with a few functions where that knowledge is needed (and we could shrink that set even more). Pretty much everything deals with the kernel-side variant and the few places that want userland one just use a bunch of force-casts to paper over the differences. The thing is, kernel-side definition of struct msghdr is *not* exposed in include/uapi - libc doesn't see it, etc. So we can add struct user_msghdr, with proper annotations and let the few places that ever deal with those beasts use it for userland pointers. Saner typechecking aside, that will allow to change the layout of kernel-side msghdr - e.g. replace msg_iov/msg_iovlen there with struct iov_iter, getting rid of the need to modify the iovec as we copy data to/from it, etc. We could introduce kernel_msghdr instead, but that would create much more noise - the absolute majority of the instances would need to have the type switched to kernel_msghdr and definition of struct msghdr in include/linux/socket.h is not going to be seen by userland anyway. This commit just introduces user_msghdr and switches the few places that are dealing with userland-side msghdr to it. [1] actually, it's even trickier than that - we copy msg_control for sendmsg, but keep the userland address on recvmsg. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/compat.c')
-rw-r--r--net/compat.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/compat.c b/net/compat.c
index bc8aeefddf3f..562e920b07f0 100644
--- a/net/compat.c
+++ b/net/compat.c
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sendmsg, int, fd, struct compat_msghdr __user *, msg, uns
{
if (flags & MSG_CMSG_COMPAT)
return -EINVAL;
- return __sys_sendmsg(fd, (struct msghdr __user *)msg, flags | MSG_CMSG_COMPAT);
+ return __sys_sendmsg(fd, (struct user_msghdr __user *)msg, flags | MSG_CMSG_COMPAT);
}
COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(sendmmsg, int, fd, struct compat_mmsghdr __user *, mmsg,
@@ -756,7 +756,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(recvmsg, int, fd, struct compat_msghdr __user *, msg, uns
{
if (flags & MSG_CMSG_COMPAT)
return -EINVAL;
- return __sys_recvmsg(fd, (struct msghdr __user *)msg, flags | MSG_CMSG_COMPAT);
+ return __sys_recvmsg(fd, (struct user_msghdr __user *)msg, flags | MSG_CMSG_COMPAT);
}
COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(recv, int, fd, void __user *, buf, compat_size_t, len, unsigned int, flags)