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Commit 2886a8bd authored by Arjan van de Ven's avatar Arjan van de Ven Committed by Linus Torvalds
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floppy: Add an extra bound check on ioctl arguments



gcc is not convinced that the floppy.c ioctl has sufficient bound checks:

In function `copy_from_user',
    inlined from `fd_copyin' at drivers/block/floppy.c:3080,
    inlined from `fd_ioctl' at drivers/block/floppy.c:3503:
    arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h:211:
warning: call to `copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute
warning: copy_from_user buffer size is not provably correct

And frankly, as a human I have a hard time proving the same more or less
(the size comes from the ioctl argument.  humpf.  maybe.  the code isn't
very nice)

This patch adds an explicit check to make 100% sure it's safe, better than
finding out later that there indeed was a gap.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add WARN_ON()]
Signed-off-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent faa7b7dd
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