[tip: locking/core] futex: Change utime parameter to be 'const ... *'

From: tip-bot2 for Alejandro Colomar
Date: Thu Jan 28 2021 - 07:23:05 EST


The following commit has been merged into the locking/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 1ce53e2c2ac069e7b3c400a427002a70deb4a916
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/1ce53e2c2ac069e7b3c400a427002a70deb4a916
Author: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 13:39:46 +01:00
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 13:20:18 +01:00

futex: Change utime parameter to be 'const ... *'

futex(2) says that 'utime' is a pointer to 'const'. The implementation
doesn't use 'const'; however, it _never_ modifies the contents of utime.

- futex() either uses 'utime' as a pointer to struct or as a 'u32'.

- In case it's used as a 'u32', it makes a copy of it, and of course it is
not dereferenced.

- In case it's used as a 'struct __kernel_timespec __user *', the pointer
is not dereferenced inside the futex() definition, and it is only passed
to a function: get_timespec64(), which accepts a 'const struct
__kernel_timespec __user *'.

[ tglx: Make the same change to the compat syscall and fixup the prototypes. ]

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201128123945.4592-1-alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx

---
include/linux/syscalls.h | 8 ++++----
kernel/futex.c | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
index f3929af..5cb74ed 100644
--- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
+++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
@@ -583,11 +583,11 @@ asmlinkage long sys_unshare(unsigned long unshare_flags);

/* kernel/futex.c */
asmlinkage long sys_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, u32 val,
- struct __kernel_timespec __user *utime, u32 __user *uaddr2,
- u32 val3);
+ const struct __kernel_timespec __user *utime,
+ u32 __user *uaddr2, u32 val3);
asmlinkage long sys_futex_time32(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, u32 val,
- struct old_timespec32 __user *utime, u32 __user *uaddr2,
- u32 val3);
+ const struct old_timespec32 __user *utime,
+ u32 __user *uaddr2, u32 val3);
asmlinkage long sys_get_robust_list(int pid,
struct robust_list_head __user * __user *head_ptr,
size_t __user *len_ptr);
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index c47d101..d0775aa 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -3790,8 +3790,8 @@ long do_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, u32 val, ktime_t *timeout,


SYSCALL_DEFINE6(futex, u32 __user *, uaddr, int, op, u32, val,
- struct __kernel_timespec __user *, utime, u32 __user *, uaddr2,
- u32, val3)
+ const struct __kernel_timespec __user *, utime,
+ u32 __user *, uaddr2, u32, val3)
{
struct timespec64 ts;
ktime_t t, *tp = NULL;
@@ -3986,7 +3986,7 @@ err_unlock:

#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
SYSCALL_DEFINE6(futex_time32, u32 __user *, uaddr, int, op, u32, val,
- struct old_timespec32 __user *, utime, u32 __user *, uaddr2,
+ const struct old_timespec32 __user *, utime, u32 __user *, uaddr2,
u32, val3)
{
struct timespec64 ts;