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linux/ipc
Will Deacon 05ba3f1aa1 ipc: compat: use signed size_t types for msgsnd and msgrcv
The msgsnd and msgrcv system calls use size_t to represent the size of the
message being transferred.  POSIX states that values of msgsz greater than
SSIZE_MAX cause the result to be implementation-defined.  On Linux, this
equates to returning -EINVAL if (long) msgsz < 0.

For compat tasks where !CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC and compat_size_t
is smaller than size_t, negative size values passed from userspace will be
interpreted as positive values by do_msg{rcv,snd} and will fail to exit
early with -EINVAL.

This patch changes the compat prototypes for msg{rcv,snd} so that the
message size is represented as a compat_ssize_t, which we cast to the
native ssize_t type for the core IPC code.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00
..
compat_mq.c ipc: initialize structure memory to zero for compat functions 2010-10-27 18:03:13 -07:00
compat.c ipc: compat: use signed size_t types for msgsnd and msgrcv 2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00
ipc_sysctl.c ipc: introduce shm_rmid_forced sysctl 2011-07-26 16:49:44 -07:00
ipcns_notifier.c ipc: do not use a negative value to re-enable msgmni automatic recomputing 2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Makefile Add generic sys_ipc wrapper 2010-03-12 15:52:32 -08:00
mq_sysctl.c mqueue: separate mqueue default value from maximum value 2012-05-31 17:49:31 -07:00
mqueue.c switch dentry_open() to struct path, make it grab references itself 2012-07-23 00:01:29 +04:00
msg.c Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
msgutil.c security: trim security.h 2012-02-14 10:45:42 +11:00
namespace.c userns: Use cred->user_ns instead of cred->user->user_ns 2012-04-07 16:55:51 -07:00
sem.c ipc/sem.c: remove private structures from public header file 2011-11-02 16:07:01 -07:00
shm.c ipc: add COMPAT_SHMLBA support 2012-07-30 17:25:20 -07:00
syscall.c ipc: add COMPAT_SHMLBA support 2012-07-30 17:25:20 -07:00
util.c ipc,rcu: Convert call_rcu(ipc_immediate_free) to kfree_rcu() 2011-07-20 14:10:16 -07:00
util.h userns: user namespaces: convert several capable() calls 2011-03-23 19:47:08 -07:00