| commit | 7a3d9b0f3abbea957b829cdfff8169872c575642 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Jan Beulich <[email protected]> | Mon Oct 21 09:44:37 2013 +0100 |
| committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | Sat Oct 26 12:27:37 2013 +0200 |
| tree | 905bb8d2f62b5bee5b1523ed6dff08dc81551763 | |
| parent | 3df7b41aa5e7797f391d0a41f8b0dce1fe366a09 [diff] |
x86: Unify copy_to_user() and add size checking to it Similarly to copy_from_user(), where the range check is to protect against kernel memory corruption, copy_to_user() can benefit from such checking too: Here it protects against kernel information leaks. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>