[PATCH] arm64: Correctly bounds check virt_addr_valid

[Mark Rutland]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 12:34:46PM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
> On 09/21/2016 10:58 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> >Are there other potentially-broken users of virt_addr_valid? It's not
> >clear to me what some drivers are doing with this, and therefore whether
> >we need to cc stable.
> 
> The number of users is pretty limited. Some of them use it as a debugging
> check, others are using it more like hardened usercopy. The number of
> users that would actually affect arm64 seems so small I don't think it's
> worth trying to backport to stable.

Ok.

> Hardened usercopy was getting hit particularly hard because usercopy was
> happening on all types of memory whereas the drivers tend to be more limited
> in scope.

Sure.

> >Given the common sub-expression, perhaps it would be better to leave
> >these as-is, but prefix them with '_', and after the #endif, have
> >something like:
> >
> >#define _virt_addr_is_linear(kaddr)	(((u64)(kaddr)) >= PAGE_OFFSET)
> >#define virt_addr_valid(kaddr)		(_virt_addr_is_linear(kaddr) && _virt_addr_valid(kaddr))
> >
> 
> Good suggestion.

FWIW, with that, feel free to add:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>

Thanks,
Mark.