linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] spi: spidev: Fix user-space memory access.

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Date:	Fri, 20 Jun 2014 20:40:39 -0000
From:	dsneddon@...eaurora.org
To:	linux-spi@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	broonie@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: spidev: Fix user-space memory access.

I just noticed this patch breaks when CONFIG_COMPAT isn't defined.  Please
ignore this patch for now.

> When the spidev module tries to access the user space memory passed in via
> an IOCTL the compat_ptr function should be called to ensure
> compatibility between kernel space and user space.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Sneddon <dsneddon@...eaurora.org>
> ---
>  drivers/spi/spidev.c | 10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spidev.c b/drivers/spi/spidev.c
> index e3bc23b..3a45158 100644
> --- a/drivers/spi/spidev.c
> +++ b/drivers/spi/spidev.c
> @@ -252,14 +252,16 @@ static int spidev_message(struct spidev_data
> *spidev,
>                 if (u_tmp->rx_buf) {
>                         k_tmp->rx_buf = buf;
>                         if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, (u8 __user *)
> -                                               (uintptr_t) u_tmp->rx_buf,
> +                                               (uintptr_t)compat_ptr( +
>                                                     u_tmp->rx_buf),
>                                                 u_tmp->len))
>                                 goto done;
>                 }
>                 if (u_tmp->tx_buf) {
>                         k_tmp->tx_buf = buf;
>                         if (copy_from_user(buf, (const u8 __user *)
> -                                               (uintptr_t) u_tmp->tx_buf,
> +                                               (uintptr_t)compat_ptr( +
>                                                     u_tmp->tx_buf),
>                                         u_tmp->len))
>                                 goto done;
>                 }
> @@ -294,8 +296,8 @@ static int spidev_message(struct spidev_data *spidev,
>         for (n = n_xfers, u_tmp = u_xfers; n; n--, u_tmp++) {
>                 if (u_tmp->rx_buf) {
>                         if (__copy_to_user((u8 __user *)
> -                                       (uintptr_t) u_tmp->rx_buf, buf, -
>                                      u_tmp->len)) {
> +
> (uintptr_t)compat_ptr(u_tmp->rx_buf),
> +                                       buf, u_tmp->len)) {
>                                 status = -EFAULT;
>                                 goto done;
>                         }
> --
> 1.8.4
>
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