* [patch 1/1] compat_alloc_user
@ 2007-06-29 0:17 Davide Libenzi
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From: Davide Libenzi @ 2007-06-29 0:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List; +Cc: Andrew Morton, Linus Torvalds
I noticed that is not possible ATM to allocate two or more blocks
of userspace memory. Would a compat_alloc_user() like the one below
make sense (patch untested)?
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
- Davide
---
include/asm-ia64/compat.h | 8 ++++++++
include/asm-mips/compat.h | 8 ++++++++
include/asm-parisc/compat.h | 8 ++++++++
include/asm-powerpc/compat.h | 8 ++++++++
include/asm-s390/compat.h | 8 ++++++++
include/asm-sparc64/compat.h | 8 ++++++++
include/asm-x86_64/compat.h | 8 ++++++++
7 files changed, 56 insertions(+)
Index: linux-2.6.mod/include/asm-x86_64/compat.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.mod.orig/include/asm-x86_64/compat.h 2007-06-13 17:48:27.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.mod/include/asm-x86_64/compat.h 2007-06-13 17:48:32.000000000 -0700
@@ -202,6 +202,14 @@
return (void __user *)regs->rsp - len;
}
+static __inline__ void __user *compat_alloc_user(void __user **prev, long len)
+{
+ void __user *data;
+ data = *prev ? (*prev - len): compat_alloc_user_space(len);
+ *prev = (void __user *) ((unsigned long) data & ~0x7UL);
+ return *prev;
+}
+
static inline int is_compat_task(void)
{
return current_thread_info()->status & TS_COMPAT;
Index: linux-2.6.mod/include/asm-sparc64/compat.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.mod.orig/include/asm-sparc64/compat.h 2007-06-13 17:48:27.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.mod/include/asm-sparc64/compat.h 2007-06-13 17:48:32.000000000 -0700
@@ -180,6 +180,14 @@
return (void __user *) usp;
}
+static inline void __user *compat_alloc_user(void __user **prev, long len)
+{
+ void __user *data;
+ data = *prev ? (*prev - len): compat_alloc_user_space(len);
+ *prev = (void __user *) ((unsigned long) data & ~0x7UL);
+ return *prev;
+}
+
struct compat_ipc64_perm {
compat_key_t key;
__compat_uid32_t uid;
Index: linux-2.6.mod/include/asm-s390/compat.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.mod.orig/include/asm-s390/compat.h 2007-06-13 17:48:27.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.mod/include/asm-s390/compat.h 2007-06-13 17:48:32.000000000 -0700
@@ -171,6 +171,14 @@
return (void __user *) (stack - len);
}
+static inline void __user *compat_alloc_user(void __user **prev, long len)
+{
+ void __user *data;
+ data = *prev ? (*prev - len): compat_alloc_user_space(len);
+ *prev = (void __user *) ((unsigned long) data & ~0x7UL);
+ return *prev;
+}
+
struct compat_ipc64_perm {
compat_key_t key;
__compat_uid32_t uid;
Index: linux-2.6.mod/include/asm-powerpc/compat.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.mod.orig/include/asm-powerpc/compat.h 2007-06-13 17:48:27.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.mod/include/asm-powerpc/compat.h 2007-06-13 17:48:32.000000000 -0700
@@ -146,6 +146,14 @@
return (void __user *) (usp - len);
}
+static inline void __user *compat_alloc_user(void __user **prev, long len)
+{
+ void __user *data;
+ data = *prev ? (*prev - len): compat_alloc_user_space(len);
+ *prev = (void __user *) ((unsigned long) data & ~0x7UL);
+ return *prev;
+}
+
/*
* ipc64_perm is actually 32/64bit clean but since the compat layer refers to
* it we may as well define it.
Index: linux-2.6.mod/include/asm-parisc/compat.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.mod.orig/include/asm-parisc/compat.h 2007-06-13 17:48:27.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.mod/include/asm-parisc/compat.h 2007-06-13 17:48:32.000000000 -0700
@@ -150,6 +150,14 @@
return (void __user *)regs->gr[30];
}
+static __inline__ void __user *compat_alloc_user(void __user **prev, long len)
+{
+ void __user *data;
+ data = *prev ? : compat_alloc_user_space(len);
+ *prev = data + ((len + 0x7UL) & ~0x7UL);
+ return data;
+}
+
static inline int __is_compat_task(struct task_struct *t)
{
return test_ti_thread_flag(task_thread_info(t), TIF_32BIT);
Index: linux-2.6.mod/include/asm-mips/compat.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.mod.orig/include/asm-mips/compat.h 2007-06-13 17:48:27.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.mod/include/asm-mips/compat.h 2007-06-13 17:48:32.000000000 -0700
@@ -148,6 +148,14 @@
return (void __user *) (regs->regs[29] - len);
}
+static inline void __user *compat_alloc_user(void __user **prev, long len)
+{
+ void __user *data;
+ data = *prev ? (*prev - len): compat_alloc_user_space(len);
+ *prev = (void __user *) ((unsigned long) data & ~0x7UL);
+ return *prev;
+}
+
struct compat_ipc64_perm {
compat_key_t key;
__compat_uid32_t uid;
Index: linux-2.6.mod/include/asm-ia64/compat.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.mod.orig/include/asm-ia64/compat.h 2007-06-13 17:48:27.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.mod/include/asm-ia64/compat.h 2007-06-13 17:48:32.000000000 -0700
@@ -202,4 +202,12 @@
return (void __user *) (((regs->r12 & 0xffffffff) & -16) - len);
}
+static __inline__ void __user *compat_alloc_user(void __user **prev, long len)
+{
+ void __user *data;
+ data = *prev ? (*prev - len): compat_alloc_user_space(len);
+ *prev = (void __user *) ((unsigned long) data & ~0xfUL;
+ return *prev;
+}
+
#endif /* _ASM_IA64_COMPAT_H */
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