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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-04 16:20:40 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-04 16:20:40 -0800
commite28cc71572da38a5a12c1cfe4d7032017adccf69 (patch)
treebea9af22a98ea2988a38f5e9fc2467ccbbf3ae70 /arch
parenta020ff412f0ecbb1e4aae1681b287e5785dd77b5 (diff)
Relax the rw_verify_area() error checking.
In particular, allow over-large read- or write-requests to be downgraded to a more reasonable range, rather than considering them outright errors. We want to protect lower layers from (the sadly all too common) overflow conditions, but prefer to do so by chopping the requests up, rather than just refusing them outright. Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/mips/kernel/linux32.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/linux32.c b/arch/mips/kernel/linux32.c
index 330cf84d21f..60353f5acc4 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/linux32.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/linux32.c
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ asmlinkage ssize_t sys32_pread(unsigned int fd, char * buf,
goto out;
pos = merge_64(a4, a5);
ret = rw_verify_area(READ, file, &pos, count);
- if (ret)
+ if (ret < 0)
goto out;
ret = -EINVAL;
if (!file->f_op || !(read = file->f_op->read))
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ asmlinkage ssize_t sys32_pwrite(unsigned int fd, const char * buf,
goto out;
pos = merge_64(a4, a5);
ret = rw_verify_area(WRITE, file, &pos, count);
- if (ret)
+ if (ret < 0)
goto out;
ret = -EINVAL;
if (!file->f_op || !(write = file->f_op->write))