linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] USB: serial: fix invalid user-pointer checks

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Date:   Tue, 08 Nov 2016 15:13:13 +0100
From:   Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
To:     Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: serial: fix invalid user-pointer checks

On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 13:26 +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Drop invalid user-pointer checks from ioctl handlers.
> 
> A NULL-pointer can be valid in user space and copy_to_user() takes
> care
> of sanity checking.

Shouldn't we bail out early in these cases?

	Regards
		Oliver