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From: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix range check on mmaped sysfs resource files
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:36:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1225258595.3865.1.camel@eswierk-laptop.arastra.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9ae48b020810282224x31706492mdbaae102909ba63b@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 22:24 -0700, Ed Swierk wrote:
> pci_mmap_fits() in 2.6.27.4 returns the wrong answer if the sysfs
> resource file size is not a multiple of the page size. vm_end and
> vm_start are already page-aligned, so size - start < nr, causing
> mmap() to return EINVAL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com>

...and here is the patch in a hopefully more readable form.


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Index: linux-2.6.27.4/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.27.4.orig/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
+++ linux-2.6.27.4/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ static int pci_mmap_fits(struct pci_dev 
 
 	nr = (vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 	start = vma->vm_pgoff;
-	size = pci_resource_len(pdev, resno) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+	size = ((pci_resource_len(pdev, resno) - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT) + 1;
 	if (start < size && size - start >= nr)
 		return 1;
 	WARN(1, "process \"%s\" tried to map 0x%08lx-0x%08lx on %s BAR %d (size 0x%08lx)\n",

      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-29  5:36 UTC|newest]

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2008-10-29  5:24 Ed Swierk
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