x86: Unify copy_to_user() and add size checking to it
authorJan Beulich <[email protected]>
Mon, 21 Oct 2013 08:44:37 +0000 (09:44 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>
Sat, 26 Oct 2013 10:27:37 +0000 (12:27 +0200)
commit7a3d9b0f3abbea957b829cdfff8169872c575642
tree905bb8d2f62b5bee5b1523ed6dff08dc81551763
parent3df7b41aa5e7797f391d0a41f8b0dce1fe366a09
x86: Unify copy_to_user() and add size checking to it

Similarly to copy_from_user(), where the range check is to
protect against kernel memory corruption, copy_to_user() can
benefit from such checking too: Here it protects against kernel
information leaks.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h
arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h
arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c