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From: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: [PATCH][2/4] let's kill verify_area - convert kernel/signal.c to access_ok()
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 02:18:34 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501070151100.3430@dragon.hygekrogen.localhost> (raw)


Here's a patch to convert verify_area to access_ok in kernel/signal.c


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>

diff -up linux-2.6.10-bk9-orig/kernel/signal.c linux-2.6.10-bk9/kernel/signal.c
--- linux-2.6.10-bk9-orig/kernel/signal.c	2005-01-06 22:19:19.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.10-bk9/kernel/signal.c	2005-01-07 02:02:55.000000000 +0100
@@ -2435,7 +2435,7 @@ do_sigaltstack (const stack_t __user *us
 		int ss_flags;
 
 		error = -EFAULT;
-		if (verify_area(VERIFY_READ, uss, sizeof(*uss))
+		if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, uss, sizeof(*uss))
 		    || __get_user(ss_sp, &uss->ss_sp)
 		    || __get_user(ss_flags, &uss->ss_flags)
 		    || __get_user(ss_size, &uss->ss_size))







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