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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 /mm/slab.c | |
| parent | 4dc86ae1f925b2121d4e75058675895f83e54c71 (diff) | |
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')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/slab.c | 13 |
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))) |