[PATCH] ppc32: Fix alignment exception checking on load/store multiple instructions
Kumar Gala
galak at freescale.com
Tue Apr 12 16:03:44 EST 2005
Paulus,
Can you take a look and ack this patch before I send to akpm.
The handling of misaligned load/store multiplies did not check to see if
the address were ok to access before __{get,put}_user().
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala at freescale.com>
---
diff -Nru a/arch/ppc/kernel/align.c b/arch/ppc/kernel/align.c
--- a/arch/ppc/kernel/align.c 2005-04-12 01:00:10 -05:00
+++ b/arch/ppc/kernel/align.c 2005-04-12 01:00:10 -05:00
@@ -290,6 +290,10 @@
/* lwm, stmw */
nb = (32 - reg) * 4;
}
+
+ if (!access_ok((flags & ST? VERIFY_WRITE: VERIFY_READ), addr, nb+nb0))
+ return -EFAULT; /* bad address */
+
rptr = (unsigned char *) ®s->gpr[reg];
if (flags & LD) {
for (i = 0; i < nb; ++i)
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