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authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>2006-12-06 20:36:56 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-07 08:39:34 -0800
commit9774a1f54f173ad18e816496c8979f1bf8ef666a (patch)
tree43787344922cca18dfa0eba9a4fc3ce646e22bff /include/linux
parent37167485302c8876cb0303af113696e88c2945aa (diff)
[PATCH] Compile-time check re world-writeable module params
One of the mistakes a module_param() user can make is to supply default value of module parameter as the last argument. module_param() accepts permissions instead. If default value is, say, 3 (-------wx), parameter becomes world-writeable. So far, the only remedy was to apply grep(1) and read drivers submitted to -mm. BTDT. With this patch applied, compiler will finally do some job. *) bounds checking on permissions *) world-writeable bit checking on permissions *) compile breakage if checks trigger First version of this check (only "& 2" part) directly caught 4 out of 7 places during my last grep. Subject: Neverending module_param() bugs [X] drivers/acpi/sbs.c:101:module_param(capacity_mode, int, CAPACITY_UNIT); [X] drivers/acpi/sbs.c:102:module_param(update_mode, int, UPDATE_MODE); [ ] drivers/acpi/sbs.c:103:module_param(update_info_mode, int, UPDATE_INFO_MODE); [ ] drivers/acpi/sbs.c:104:module_param(update_time, int, UPDATE_TIME); [ ] drivers/acpi/sbs.c:105:module_param(update_time2, int, UPDATE_TIME2); [X] drivers/char/watchdog/sbc8360.c:203:module_param(timeout, int, 27); [X] drivers/media/video/tuner-simple.c:13:module_param(offset, int, 0666); Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/moduleparam.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
index 7c0c2c198f1..4a189dadb16 100644
--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ struct kparam_array
not there, read bits mean it's readable, write bits mean it's
writable. */
#define __module_param_call(prefix, name, set, get, arg, perm) \
+ /* Default value instead of permissions? */ \
+ static int __param_perm_check_##name __attribute__((unused)) = \
+ BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((perm) < 0 || (perm) > 0777 || ((perm) & 2)); \
static char __param_str_##name[] = prefix #name; \
static struct kernel_param const __param_##name \
__attribute_used__ \