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authorIan Schram <ischram@telenet.be>2009-09-18 21:26:26 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-19 19:32:55 +0200
commitcdf8073d6b2c6c5a3cd6ce0e6c1297157f7f99ba (patch)
treec5b68d4ded3b82a934c7bd25d798b8b3870e5b25 /kernel
parentec60a3fe478c0fc6d109eb5840b435ecee4d132b (diff)
perf_counter: Fix perf_copy_attr() pointer arithmetic
There is still some weird code in per_copy_attr(). Which supposedly checks that all bytes trailing a struct are zero. It doesn't seem to get pointer arithmetic right. Since it increments an iterating pointer by sizeof(unsigned long) rather than 1. Signed-off-by: Ian Schram <ischram@telenet.be> [ v2: clean up the messy PTR_ALIGN logic as well. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # for v2.6.31.x LKML-Reference: <4AB3DEE2.3030600@telenet.be> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_counter.c20
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index d5899b62b276..cc768ab81ac8 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -4208,8 +4208,8 @@ done:
static int perf_copy_attr(struct perf_counter_attr __user *uattr,
struct perf_counter_attr *attr)
{
- int ret;
u32 size;
+ int ret;
if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uattr, PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER0))
return -EFAULT;
@@ -4234,19 +4234,19 @@ static int perf_copy_attr(struct perf_counter_attr __user *uattr,
/*
* If we're handed a bigger struct than we know of,
- * ensure all the unknown bits are 0.
+ * ensure all the unknown bits are 0 - i.e. new
+ * user-space does not rely on any kernel feature
+ * extensions we dont know about yet.
*/
if (size > sizeof(*attr)) {
- unsigned long val;
- unsigned long __user *addr;
- unsigned long __user *end;
+ unsigned char __user *addr;
+ unsigned char __user *end;
+ unsigned char val;
- addr = PTR_ALIGN((void __user *)uattr + sizeof(*attr),
- sizeof(unsigned long));
- end = PTR_ALIGN((void __user *)uattr + size,
- sizeof(unsigned long));
+ addr = (void __user *)uattr + sizeof(*attr);
+ end = (void __user *)uattr + size;
- for (; addr < end; addr += sizeof(unsigned long)) {
+ for (; addr < end; addr++) {
ret = get_user(val, addr);
if (ret)
return ret;