linux-kernel - [BUGFIX][PATCH 3/3] kcore: /proc/kcore should use vread

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Message-Id: <20090803201937.2a7de358.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Mon, 3 Aug 2009 20:19:37 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Mike Smith <scgtrp@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	Amerigo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [BUGFIX][PATCH 3/3] kcore: /proc/kcore should use vread

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>

/proc/kcore has its own routine to access vmallc area. It can be replaced
with vread(). And by this, /proc/kcore can do safe access to vmalloc area.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
---
---
 fs/proc/kcore.c |   35 ++---------------------------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.31-rc5/fs/proc/kcore.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.31-rc5.orig/fs/proc/kcore.c	2009-08-03 19:50:58.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6.31-rc5/fs/proc/kcore.c	2009-08-03 19:56:01.000000000 +0900
@@ -328,43 +328,12 @@
 				return -EFAULT;
 		} else if (is_vmalloc_addr((void *)start)) {
 			char * elf_buf;
-			struct vm_struct *m;
-			unsigned long curstart = start;
-			unsigned long cursize = tsz;
 
 			elf_buf = kzalloc(tsz, GFP_KERNEL);
 			if (!elf_buf)
 				return -ENOMEM;
-
-			read_lock(&vmlist_lock);
-			for (m=vmlist; m && cursize; m=m->next) {
-				unsigned long vmstart;
-				unsigned long vmsize;
-				unsigned long msize = m->size - PAGE_SIZE;
-
-				if (((unsigned long)m->addr + msize) < 
-								curstart)
-					continue;
-				if ((unsigned long)m->addr > (curstart + 
-								cursize))
-					break;
-				vmstart = (curstart < (unsigned long)m->addr ? 
-					(unsigned long)m->addr : curstart);
-				if (((unsigned long)m->addr + msize) > 
-							(curstart + cursize))
-					vmsize = curstart + cursize - vmstart;
-				else
-					vmsize = (unsigned long)m->addr + 
-							msize - vmstart;
-				curstart = vmstart + vmsize;
-				cursize -= vmsize;
-				/* don't dump ioremap'd stuff! (TA) */
-				if (m->flags & VM_IOREMAP)
-					continue;
-				memcpy(elf_buf + (vmstart - start),
-					(char *)vmstart, vmsize);
-			}
-			read_unlock(&vmlist_lock);
+			vread(elf_buf, (char *)start, tsz);
+			/* we have to zero-fill user buffer even if no read */
 			if (copy_to_user(buffer, elf_buf, tsz)) {
 				kfree(elf_buf);
 				return -EFAULT;

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