h8300: fix recent uaccess breakage
authorYoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:32:37 +0000 (12:32 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:11:43 +0000 (13:11 -0700)
Al Viro wrote:
>
>  After that commit in asm-h8300/uaccess.h we have
>
> #define get_user(x, ptr)                                        \
> ({                                                              \
>     int __gu_err = 0;                                           \
>     uint32_t __gu_val = 0;                              \
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>     switch (sizeof(*(ptr))) {                                   \
>     case 1:                                                     \
>     case 2:                                                     \
>     case 4:                                                     \
>         __gu_val = *(ptr);                                      \
>         break;                                                  \
>     case 8:                                                     \
>         memcpy(&__gu_val, ptr, sizeof (*(ptr)));                \
>                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> which, of course, is FUBAR whenever we actually hit that case - memcpy of
> 8 bytes into uint32_t is obviously wrong.  Why don't we simply do

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/asm-h8300/uaccess.h

index a22350ec271aae96e494fdcc6c90c432010a296d..356068cd0879bdf145bd68f12857b75cfd95ab4c 100644 (file)
@@ -91,22 +91,19 @@ extern int __put_user_bad(void);
 #define get_user(x, ptr)                                       \
 ({                                                             \
     int __gu_err = 0;                                          \
-    uint32_t __gu_val = 0;                             \
+    typeof(*(ptr)) __gu_val = *ptr;                            \
     switch (sizeof(*(ptr))) {                                  \
     case 1:                                                    \
     case 2:                                                    \
     case 4:                                                    \
-       __gu_val = *(ptr);                                      \
-       break;                                                  \
-    case 8:                                                    \
-       memcpy(&__gu_val, ptr, sizeof (*(ptr)));                \
+    case 8:                                                    \
        break;                                                  \
     default:                                                   \
-       __gu_val = 0;                                           \
        __gu_err = __get_user_bad();                            \
+       __gu_val = 0;                                           \
        break;                                                  \
     }                                                          \
-    (x) = (typeof(*(ptr)))__gu_val;                            \
+    (x) = __gu_val;                                            \
     __gu_err;                                                  \
 })
 #define __get_user(x, ptr) get_user(x, ptr)