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authorPeter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>2005-05-14 00:58:30 -0700
committerGreg KH <gregkh@suse.de>2005-05-16 21:07:31 -0700
commit118326e940bdecef6c459d42ccf05256ba86daa7 (patch)
tree13b1e48f4f3700603ed258c41e9e39978babf5ee /README
parent68f66feb300423bb9ee5daecb1951af394425a38 (diff)
[PATCH] Fix root hole in pktcdvd
ioctl_by_bdev may only be used INSIDE the kernel. If the "arg" argument refers to memory that is accessed by put_user/get_user in the ioctl function, the memory needs to be in the kernel address space (that's the set_fs(KERNEL_DS) doing in the ioctl_by_bdev). This works on i386 because even with set_fs(KERNEL_DS) the user space memory is still accessible with put_user/get_user. That is not true for s390. In short the ioctl implementation of the pktcdvd device driver is horribly broken. Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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