linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/26] netfilter: switch nf_setsockopt to sockptr

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Message-ID: <20200727162357.GA8022@lst.de>
Date:   Mon, 27 Jul 2020 18:23:57 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/26] netfilter: switch nf_setsockopt to sockptr_t

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 06:16:32PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Maybe sockptr_advance should have some safety checks and sometimes
> return -EFAULT? Or you should always use the implementation where
> being a kernel address is an explicit bit of sockptr_t, rather than
> being implicit?

I already have a patch to use access_ok to check the whole range in
init_user_sockptr.