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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][resend] small binfmt_elf warning fix (copy_from_user return value checking) (fwd)
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:01:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041024030151.0c81df8f.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0410240244050.25721@dragon.hygekrogen.localhost>

Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> wrote:
>
>  diff -up linux-2.6.9-rc3-bk5-orig/fs/binfmt_elf.c linux-2.6.9-rc3-bk5/fs/binfmt_elf.c
>  --- linux-2.6.9-rc3-bk5-orig/fs/binfmt_elf.c	2004-09-30 05:04:32.000000000 +0200
>  +++ linux-2.6.9-rc3-bk5/fs/binfmt_elf.c	2004-10-06 23:21:22.000000000 +0200
>  @@ -1223,7 +1223,7 @@ static void fill_psinfo(struct elf_prpsi
>   	len = mm->arg_end - mm->arg_start;
>   	if (len >= ELF_PRARGSZ)
>   		len = ELF_PRARGSZ-1;
>  -	copy_from_user(&psinfo->pr_psargs,
>  +	len -= copy_from_user(&psinfo->pr_psargs,
>   		       (const char __user *)mm->arg_start, len);
>   	for(i = 0; i < len; i++)
>   		if (psinfo->pr_psargs[i] == 0)

It doesn't matter, really - we've already zeroed out the memory and will
correctly handle any uncopied data.

Maybe sticking a (void) in front of the copy_from_user() call will shut the
warning up.  Although it could possibly break the build, depending on how
the architecture implements copy_from_user().

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-24 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-24  0:49 Jesper Juhl
2004-10-24 10:01 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-10-24 10:42   ` Jesper Juhl

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