[PATCH v12 01/12] lib: introduce copy_struct_{to, from}_user helpers

Andreas Schwab schwab at linux-m68k.org
Thu Sep 5 19:09:35 AEST 2019


On Sep 05 2019, Aleksa Sarai <cyphar at cyphar.com> wrote:

> diff --git a/lib/struct_user.c b/lib/struct_user.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..7301ab1bbe98
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/lib/struct_user.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,182 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
> +/*
> + * Copyright (C) 2019 SUSE LLC
> + * Copyright (C) 2019 Aleksa Sarai <cyphar at cyphar.com>
> + */
> +
> +#include <linux/types.h>
> +#include <linux/export.h>
> +#include <linux/uaccess.h>
> +#include <linux/kernel.h>
> +#include <linux/string.h>
> +
> +#define BUFFER_SIZE 64
> +
> +/*
> + * "memset(p, 0, size)" but for user space buffers. Caller must have already
> + * checked access_ok(p, size).
> + */
> +static int __memzero_user(void __user *p, size_t s)
> +{
> +	const char zeros[BUFFER_SIZE] = {};

Perhaps make that static?

Andreas.

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