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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@gmail.com>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
	linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/uverbs: Add a check for uverbs_attr_get
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 16:12:16 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191022191216.GE23952@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191018081533.8544-1-hslester96@gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 04:15:34PM +0800, Chuhong Yuan wrote:
> Only uverbs_copy_to_struct_or_zero in uverbs_ioctl.c does not have a
> check for uverbs_attr_get.
> Although its usage in uverbs_response has a check for attr's validity,
> UVERBS_HANDLER does not.
> Therefore, it is better to add a check like other functions in
> uverbs_ioctl.c.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_ioctl.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

The call in uverbs_ioctl.c is safe as well, that code path checks that
the attribute exists.

Still, it make sense that this check should be present, so applied to
for-next with a clearer commit message

Thanks,
Jason

      reply	other threads:[~2019-10-22 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-18  8:15 Chuhong Yuan
2019-10-22 19:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]

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