On 29/01/2015 20:00, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> While ib_copy_to_udata() should check for the available output
> space as already proposed in some other patches [1][2][3], the
> changes brought by commit 5a77abf9a97a ("IB/core: Add support for
> extended query device caps") are silently truncating the data to
> be written to userspace if the output buffer is not large enough
> to hold the response data.
>
> Silently truncating the response is not a reliable behavior as
> userspace is not given any hint about this truncation: userspace
> is leaved with garbage to play with.
>
> Not checking the response buffer size and writing past the
> userspace buffer is no good either, but it's the current behavior.
>
> So this patch revert the particular change on ib_copy_to_udata()
> as a better behavior is implemented in the upper level function
> ib_uverbs_ex_query_device().
>
> [1] "[PATCH 00/22] infiniband: improve userspace input check"
>
> http://mid.gmane.org/[email protected]
>
> [2] "[PATCH 03/22] infiniband: ib_copy_from_udata(): check input length"
>
> http://mid.gmane.org/2bf102a41c51f61965ee09df827abe8fefb523a9.1376847403.git.ydrone...@opteya.com
>
> [3] "[PATCH 04/22] infiniband: ib_copy_to_udata(): check output length"
>
> http://mid.gmane.org/d27716a3a1c180f832d153a7402f65ea8a75b734.1376847403.git.ydrone...@opteya.com
>
> Link: http://mid.gmane.org/[email protected]
> Cc: Sagi Grimberg <[email protected]>
> Cc: Shachar Raindel <[email protected]>
> Cc: Eli Cohen <[email protected]>
> Cc: Haggai Eran <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Haggai Eran <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <[email protected]>
> ---
> include/rdma/ib_verbs.h | 5 +----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
> index 0d74f1de99aa..65994a19e840 100644
> --- a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
> +++ b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
> @@ -1707,10 +1707,7 @@ static inline int ib_copy_from_udata(void *dest,
> struct ib_udata *udata, size_t
>
> static inline int ib_copy_to_udata(struct ib_udata *udata, void *src, size_t
> len)
> {
> - size_t copy_sz;
> -
> - copy_sz = min_t(size_t, len, udata->outlen);
> - return copy_to_user(udata->outbuf, src, copy_sz) ? -EFAULT : 0;
> + return copy_to_user(udata->outbuf, src, len) ? -EFAULT : 0;
> }
>
> /**
>
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