linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] staging: pi433: add mutex fixing concurrency issues.

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Date:   Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:11:07 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Hugo Lefeuvre <hle@....eu.com>
Cc:     Valentin Vidic <Valentin.Vidic@...Net.hr>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@...nelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: pi433: add mutex fixing concurrency issues.

On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 11:48:42AM -0400, Hugo Lefeuvre wrote:
> case PI433_IOC_WR_TX_CFG:
>         if (copy_from_user(&instance->tx_cfg, argp,
>                    sizeof(struct pi433_tx_cfg)))
>             return -EFAULT;
>         break;

Btw, it looks so wrong to me that we copy partial data to
&instance->tx_cfg...  I'd really prefer copying it to a tmp buffer and
then verifying it's corrent then memcpy()ing it to &instance->tx_cfg.

regards,
dan carpenter