linux-kernel - Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Sanity check incoming ioctl data for a NULL pointer

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Date:	Sun, 17 Mar 2013 21:40:49 +0000
From:	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
To:	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Cc:	Ben Widawsky <ben@...dawsk.net>,
	Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@...il.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Sanity check incoming ioctl data
 for a NULL pointer

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 08:50:03PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> > If *userspace* doesn't request either IOC_IN | IOC_OUT in their ioctl
> > command (which are seperate from the ioctl number), then kdata is set to
> > NULL.
> 
> Doesn't that mean that we need these checks everywhere? Or at least a
> fixup in drm core proper?

That's my conclusion. We either add a flag to ask drm_ioctl to prevent
passing NULL pointers (as the existing behaviour may be useful
somewhere, and I have not checked all callees) or saturate our callbacks
with NULL checks.
-Chris
-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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