netdev - Re: [net-next 2/5] ixgbe: implement SIOCGHWTSTAMP ioctl

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Date:	Thu, 13 Feb 2014 20:03:09 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@...el.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 2/5] ixgbe: implement SIOCGHWTSTAMP ioctl

On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 00:00 -0800, Aaron Brown wrote:
[...]
> +int ixgbe_ptp_set_ts_config(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter, struct ifreq *ifr)
>  {
>  	struct ixgbe_hw *hw = &adapter->hw;
> -	struct hwtstamp_config config;
> +	struct hwtstamp_config *config = &adapter->tstamp_config;
>  	u32 tsync_tx_ctl = IXGBE_TSYNCTXCTL_ENABLED;
>  	u32 tsync_rx_ctl = IXGBE_TSYNCRXCTL_ENABLED;
>  	u32 tsync_rx_mtrl = PTP_EV_PORT << 16;
>  	bool is_l2 = false;
>  	u32 regval;
>  
> -	if (copy_from_user(&config, ifr->ifr_data, sizeof(config)))
> +	if (copy_from_user(config, ifr->ifr_data, sizeof(*config)))
>  		return -EFAULT;
[...]

This is wrong.  You overwrite the current config before validating it.

Ben.

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