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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2009-04-03 00:36:27 -0700
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2009-11-06 03:52:55 -0800
commitda3f6f9b3e0d1e73975ca81ae124406bf1587d40 (patch)
treeab2e5bb6366b0bdc00ec1bc5c02e610c1c77195d /kernel/sysctl_binary.c
parent2830b68361a9f58354ad043c6d85043ea917f907 (diff)
downloadlinux-da3f6f9b3e0d1e73975ca81ae124406bf1587d40.tar.gz
sysctl: Introduce a generic compat sysctl sysctl
This uses compat_alloc_userspace to remove the various
hacks to allow do_sysctl to write to throuh oldlenp.

The rest of our mature compat syscall helper facitilies
are used as well to ensure we have a nice clean maintainable
compat syscall that can be used on all architectures.

The motiviation for a generic compat sysctl (besides the
obvious hack removal) is to reduce the number of compat
sysctl defintions out there so I can refactor the
binary sysctl implementation.

ppc already used the name compat_sys_sysctl so I remove the
ppcs version here.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl_binary.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl_binary.c50
1 files changed, 50 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c b/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
index 930a31cd708b..775cc49da622 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
@@ -176,3 +176,53 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sysctl, struct __sysctl_args __user *, args)
 
 	return error;
 }
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
+#include <asm/compat.h>
+
+struct compat_sysctl_args {
+	compat_uptr_t	name;
+	int		nlen;
+	compat_uptr_t	oldval;
+	compat_uptr_t	oldlenp;
+	compat_uptr_t	newval;
+	compat_size_t	newlen;
+	compat_ulong_t	__unused[4];
+};
+
+asmlinkage long compat_sys_sysctl(struct compat_sysctl_args __user *args)
+{
+	struct compat_sysctl_args tmp;
+	compat_size_t __user *compat_oldlenp;
+	size_t __user *oldlenp = NULL;
+	size_t oldlen = 0;
+	ssize_t result;
+
+	if (copy_from_user(&tmp, args, sizeof(tmp)))
+		return -EFAULT;
+
+	compat_oldlenp = compat_ptr(tmp.oldlenp);
+	if (compat_oldlenp) {
+		oldlenp = compat_alloc_user_space(sizeof(*compat_oldlenp));
+
+		if (get_user(oldlen, compat_oldlenp) ||
+		    put_user(oldlen, oldlenp))
+			return -EFAULT;
+	}
+
+	lock_kernel();
+	result = do_sysctl(compat_ptr(tmp.name), tmp.nlen,
+			   compat_ptr(tmp.oldval), oldlenp,
+			   compat_ptr(tmp.newval), tmp.newlen);
+	unlock_kernel();
+
+	if (oldlenp && !result) {
+		if (get_user(oldlen, oldlenp) ||
+		    put_user(oldlen, compat_oldlenp))
+			return -EFAULT;
+	}
+
+	return result;
+}
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_COMPAT */