fs/fcntl: use copy_to/from_user() for u64 types
authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:09:45 +0000 (08:09 -0600)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:09:45 +0000 (08:09 -0600)
Some architectures (at least PPC) doesn't like get/put_user with
64-bit types on a 32-bit system. Use the variably sized copy
to/from user variants instead.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fixes: c75b1d9421f8 ("fs: add fcntl() interface for setting/getting write life time hints")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
fs/fcntl.c

index 67bdc6e8ccad14541a682ba0bc12bb18738eadef..ed051f825badcb5e64a21ed108048483bbd49efa 100644 (file)
@@ -264,15 +264,18 @@ static long fcntl_rw_hint(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
        struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
        u64 *argp = (u64 __user *)arg;
        enum rw_hint hint;
+       u64 h;
 
        switch (cmd) {
        case F_GET_FILE_RW_HINT:
-               if (put_user(file_write_hint(file), argp))
+               h = file_write_hint(file);
+               if (copy_to_user(argp, &h, sizeof(*argp)))
                        return -EFAULT;
                return 0;
        case F_SET_FILE_RW_HINT:
-               if (get_user(hint, argp))
+               if (copy_from_user(&h, argp, sizeof(h)))
                        return -EFAULT;
+               hint = (enum rw_hint) h;
                if (!rw_hint_valid(hint))
                        return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -281,12 +284,14 @@ static long fcntl_rw_hint(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
                spin_unlock(&file->f_lock);
                return 0;
        case F_GET_RW_HINT:
-               if (put_user(inode->i_write_hint, argp))
+               h = inode->i_write_hint;
+               if (copy_to_user(argp, &h, sizeof(*argp)))
                        return -EFAULT;
                return 0;
        case F_SET_RW_HINT:
-               if (get_user(hint, argp))
+               if (copy_from_user(&h, argp, sizeof(h)))
                        return -EFAULT;
+               hint = (enum rw_hint) h;
                if (!rw_hint_valid(hint))
                        return -EINVAL;