[PATCH v2 13/18] uaccess: generalize access_ok()

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Feb 16 23:52:29 PST 2022


On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 2:13 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at kernel.org> wrote:

> + * limit and catch all possible overflows.
> + * On architectures with separate user address space (m68k, s390, parisc,
> + * sparc64) or those without an MMU, this should always return true.
...
> +static inline int __access_ok(const void __user *ptr, unsigned long size)
> +{
> +       unsigned long limit = user_addr_max();
> +       unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)ptr;
> +
> +       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ALTERNATE_USER_ADDRESS_SPACE))
> +               return true;

I noticed that I'm missing the check for !CONFIG_MMU here, despite
mentioning that in the comment above it. I've added it now.

        Arnd



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