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author | Jan Beulich <[email protected]> | 2013-10-21 09:44:37 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2013-10-26 12:27:37 +0200 |
commit | 7a3d9b0f3abbea957b829cdfff8169872c575642 (patch) | |
tree | 905bb8d2f62b5bee5b1523ed6dff08dc81551763 /lib/test-string_helpers.c | |
parent | 3df7b41aa5e7797f391d0a41f8b0dce1fe366a09 (diff) |
x86: Unify copy_to_user() and add size checking to it
Similarly to copy_from_user(), where the range check is to
protect against kernel memory corruption, copy_to_user() can
benefit from such checking too: Here it protects against kernel
information leaks.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
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