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SubjectRe: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Sanity check incoming ioctl data for a NULL pointer
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On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 08:50:03PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
>> > If *userspace* doesn't request either IOC_IN | IOC_OUT in their ioctl
>> > command (which are seperate from the ioctl number), then kdata is set to
>> > NULL.
>>
>> Doesn't that mean that we need these checks everywhere? Or at least a
>> fixup in drm core proper?
>
> That's my conclusion. We either add a flag to ask drm_ioctl to prevent
> passing NULL pointers (as the existing behaviour may be useful
> somewhere, and I have not checked all callees) or saturate our callbacks
> with NULL checks.

Do we have the kernel's expected IOC_IN/IOC_OUT flags at that point as well?

we could check them and block NULL in that case.

Dave.


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