linux-sg2042/include
Will Deacon 05ba3f1aa1 ipc: compat: use signed size_t types for msgsnd and msgrcv
The msgsnd and msgrcv system calls use size_t to represent the size of the
message being transferred.  POSIX states that values of msgsz greater than
SSIZE_MAX cause the result to be implementation-defined.  On Linux, this
equates to returning -EINVAL if (long) msgsz < 0.

For compat tasks where !CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC and compat_size_t
is smaller than size_t, negative size values passed from userspace will be
interpreted as positive values by do_msg{rcv,snd} and will fail to exit
early with -EINVAL.

This patch changes the compat prototypes for msg{rcv,snd} so that the
message size is represented as a compat_ssize_t, which we cast to the
native ssize_t type for the core IPC code.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00
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acpi Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2012-07-26 14:28:55 -07:00
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drm Merge branch 'drm-nouveau-fixes' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/nouveau/linux-2.6 into drm-next 2012-07-26 10:35:44 +10:00
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linux ipc: compat: use signed size_t types for msgsnd and msgrcv 2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00
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