Re: [PATCH 1/4] asm-generic: uaccess: do not expand args multiple times

[Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 00:38, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:14:39PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Sunday 14 June 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> > While it's debatable whether {get,put}_user() should be called with
>> > arguments that have side effects, macro's should be written safely in the
>> > first place.  In this case, a slightly off version of put_user() ended up
>> > causing random userspace corruption and these things aren't trivial to
>> > track down.
>> >
>> > While some of these conversions aren't strictly necessary, I think it's
>> > better to do all of them so as to be proactive in people accidently
>> > screwing it up in the future.
>>
>> I've tried this and failed. This change adds an endless number of sparse
>> warnings in put_user and even gcc warnings in get_user. The problem
>> is that typeof() carries over the 'const' and '__user' modifiers, both
>> of which prevent you from assigning data to the new pointer that you
>> constructed.
>>
>> I'd love to see a way to do this correctly, but this patch won't cut it.
>
> Note that sizeof(*(ptr)) does *NOT* evaluate ptr, unless we are dealing
> with variably-modified type.  The same goes for typeof.  And chk_user_ptr()
> expands to (void)0 during the build.

i never said it does -- i explicitly said i converted more than needed
on purpose

>  So I don't believe that existing variant
> is incorrect - we do not evaluate the argument twice.

except that it does.  read get_user() where the argument is expanded
once for access_ok() and twice when tailing to __get_user().  same
goes for put_user().
-mike