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Date:   Sun, 9 Aug 2020 07:35:01 +0900
From:   Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>
To:     Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>,
        Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@...nalahti.fi>,
        openrisc@...ts.librecores.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] openrisc: uaccess: Add user address space check
 to access_ok

On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 09:02:29PM +0200, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 06:07:25AM +0900, Stafford Horne wrote:
> > Now that __user annotations are fixed for openrisc uaccess api's we can
> > add checking to the access_ok macro.  This patch adds the __chk_user_ptr
> > check, on normal builds the added check is a nop.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/openrisc/include/asm/uaccess.h | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/openrisc/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/openrisc/include/asm/uaccess.h
> > index 85a55359b244..53ddc66abb3f 100644
> > --- a/arch/openrisc/include/asm/uaccess.h
> > +++ b/arch/openrisc/include/asm/uaccess.h
> > @@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ static inline int __range_ok(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size)
> >  
> >  #define access_ok(addr, size)						\
> >  ({ 									\
> > -	__range_ok((unsigned long)(addr), (size));			\
> > +	__chk_user_ptr(addr);						\
> > +	__range_ok((__force unsigned long)(addr), (size));		\
> >  })
> 
> Just for info, __force is not needed when casting a pointer to
> unsigned long (or uintptr_t). It's not incorrect to use one
> but I think it's to avoid __force as much as possible.

Thanks, I didn't realize that.  I will fix.

-Stafford