[PATCH] arm64: avoid multiple evaluation of ptr in get_user/put_user()
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Sep 24 10:25:54 EDT 2013
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:00:50AM +0100, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> get_user() is defined as a function macro in arm64, and trace_get_user()
> calls it as followed:
> get_user(ch, ptr++);
> Since the second parameter occurs twice in the definition, 'ptr++' is
> unexpectedly evaluated twice and trace_get_user() will generate a bogus
> string from user-provided one. As a result, some ftrace sysfs operations,
> like "echo FUNCNAME > set_ftrace_filter," hit this case and eventually fail.
> This patch fixes the issue both in get_user() and put_user().
>
> Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h | 12 ++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
> index edb3d5c..bbeab83 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
> @@ -166,9 +166,11 @@ do { \
> #define get_user(x, ptr) \
> ({ \
> + __typeof__(*(ptr)) *optr = (ptr); \
> + \
> might_fault(); \
> - access_ok(VERIFY_READ, (ptr), sizeof(*(ptr))) ? \
> - __get_user((x), (ptr)) : \
> + access_ok(VERIFY_READ, optr, sizeof(*optr)) ? \
> + __get_user((x), optr) : \
> ((x) = 0, -EFAULT); \
> })
> @@ -227,9 +229,11 @@ do { \
> #define put_user(x, ptr) \
> ({ \
> + __typeof__(*(ptr)) *optr = (ptr); \
> + \
> might_fault(); \
> - access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, (ptr), sizeof(*(ptr))) ? \
> - __put_user((x), (ptr)) : \
> + access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, optr, sizeof(*optr)) ? \
> + __put_user((x), optr) : \
> -EFAULT; \
> })
> -- 1.7.9.5
BTW, please use git send-email or other email client, the diff above is
heavily corrupted (too many spaces at the beginning of the line, removed
empty lines; I managed to fix it up this time but only because it was a
small patch).
--
Catalin
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