[dm-devel] dm ioctl: Access user-land memory through safe functions.

[Mike Snitzer]

On Tue, Jan 05 2016 at  3:16pm -0500,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 08 2015 at  1:26pm -0500,
> Scotty Bauer <sbauer at eng.utah.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Friendly ping, is anyone interested in this?
> 
> The passed @user argument is flagged via __user so it can be
> deferenced directly.  It does look like directly deferencing
> user->version is wrong.
> 
> But even if such indirect access is needed (because __user flag is only
> applicable to @user arg, not the contained version member) we could more
> easily just do something like this no?:
> 
>   uint32_t __user *versionp = (uint32_t __user *)user->version;
>   ...
>   if (copy_from_user(version, versionp, sizeof(version)))
>      return -EFAULT;
> 
> I've staged the following, thanks:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=dm-4.5&id=bffc9e237a0c3176712bcd93fc6a184a61e0df26

Alasdair helped me understand that we do need your original fix.
I've staged it for 4.5 (and stable@) here:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=dm-4.5&id=ead3db62bf10fe143bec99e7b7ff370d7a6d23ef

Thanks again,
Mike