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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

compat_mq.c

ipc: initialize structure memory to zero for compat functions

2010-10-27 18:03:13 -07:00

compat.c

ipc: compat: use signed size_t types for msgsnd and msgrcv

2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00

ipc_sysctl.c

ipc: introduce shm_rmid_forced sysctl

2011-07-26 16:49:44 -07:00

ipcns_notifier.c

ipc: do not use a negative value to re-enable msgmni automatic recomputing