Re: Finding user/kernel pointer bugs [no html]
From: viro
Date: Thu Jun 10 2004 - 14:39:22 EST
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:32:08PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Hm, so we should ignore the sparse warning about the original then?
IMO that warning is bogus in case of <op>= and if getting rid of a warning
obfuscates the code...
> > > - data_ptrs = (u8 **) kmalloc(rdwr_arg.nmsgs * sizeof(u8 *),
> > > - GFP_KERNEL);
> > > + data_ptrs = kmalloc(rdwr_arg.nmsgs * sizeof(u8 __user *), GFP_KERNEL);
> >
> > While we are at it, what's the type of ->nmsgs?
>
> include/linux/i2c-dev.h states it is __u32. Any problems with that?
Nevermind - it's checked several lines above...
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