Cc: Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg --- Bastian, can I have your Signed-off-by for this, please? Oliver, Niki, can you please confirm this closes the hole? fs/splice.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6/fs/splice.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/splice.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/splice.c @@ -1237,6 +1237,9 @@ static int get_iovec_page_array(const st if (unlikely(!base)) break; + if (unlikely(!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, base, len))) + break; + /* * Get this base offset and number of pages, then map * in the user pages.