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Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:53:47 +0000
From: Zack Rusin <zackr@...are.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Introduce new wrappers to copy user-arrays
On Fri, 2023-09-08 at 21:59 +0200, Philipp Stanner wrote:
> Hi!
>
> David Airlie suggested that we could implement new wrappers around
> (v)memdup_user() for duplicating user arrays.
>
> This small patch series first implements the two new wrapper functions
> memdup_array_user() and vmemdup_array_user(). They calculate the
> array-sizes safely, i.e., they return an error in case of an overflow.
>
> It then implements the new wrappers in two components in kernel/ and two
> in the drm-subsystem.
>
> In total, there are 18 files in the kernel that use (v)memdup_user() to
> duplicate arrays. My plan is to provide patches for the other 14
> successively once this series has been merged.
>
>
> Changes since v1:
> - Insert new headers alphabetically ordered
> - Remove empty lines in functions' docstrings
> - Return -EOVERFLOW instead of -EINVAL from wrapper functions
>
>
> @Andy:
> I test-build it for UM on my x86_64. Builds successfully.
> A kernel build (localmodconfig) for my Fedora38 @ x86_64 does also boot
> fine.
>
> If there is more I can do to verify the early boot stages are fine,
> please let me know!
>
> P.
>
> Philipp Stanner (5):
> string.h: add array-wrappers for (v)memdup_user()
> kernel: kexec: copy user-array safely
> kernel: watch_queue: copy user-array safely
> drm_lease.c: copy user-array safely
> drm: vmgfx_surface.c: copy user-array safely
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_lease.c | 4 +--
> drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c | 4 +--
> include/linux/string.h | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> kernel/kexec.c | 2 +-
> kernel/watch_queue.c | 2 +-
> 5 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
Series, and in particular the vmwgfx changes, look good to me.
Reviewed-by: Zack Rusin <zackr@...are.com>
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