From 4e4f9e66a75921aa260c2f5bf626bdea54e51ba2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Corey Minyard Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:48:44 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] fs/read_write.c:compat_readv(): remove bogus area verify The compat_do_readv_writev() function was doing a verify_area on the incoming iov, but the nr_segs value is not checked. If someone passes in a -1 for nr_segs, for instance, the function should return an EINVAL. However, it returns a EFAULT because the verify_area fails because it is checking an array of size MAX_UINT. The check is bogus, anyway, because the next check, compat_rw_copy_check_uvector(), will do all the necessary checking, anyway. The non-compat do_readv_writev() function doesn't do this check, so I think it's safe to just remove the code. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/read_write.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c index 58e440df1bc6..1193ffd03565 100644 --- a/fs/read_write.c +++ b/fs/read_write.c @@ -901,10 +901,6 @@ static ssize_t compat_do_readv_writev(int type, struct file *file, io_fn_t fn; iov_fn_t fnv; - ret = -EFAULT; - if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, uvector, nr_segs*sizeof(*uvector))) - goto out; - ret = compat_rw_copy_check_uvector(type, uvector, nr_segs, UIO_FASTIOV, iovstack, &iov); if (ret <= 0) -- 2.20.1