From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 03:42:11 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: [MIPS] N32: Make sure pointer is good before passing it to sys_waitid().
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.16-rc5~66^2~8
X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f3468e0c34c8de919062582575a01e2434c8e727;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

[MIPS] N32: Make sure pointer is good before passing it to sys_waitid().

After all we're calling sys_waitid() with fs set to KERNEL_DS ...

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/linux32.c b/arch/mips/kernel/linux32.c
index 9996b6e8458..5f68b220c26 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/linux32.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/linux32.c
@@ -230,6 +230,9 @@ sysn32_waitid(int which, compat_pid_t pid,
 	long ret;
 	mm_segment_t old_fs = get_fs();
 
+	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uinfo, sizeof(*uinfo)))
+		return -EFAULT;
+
 	set_fs (KERNEL_DS);
 	ret = sys_waitid(which, pid, uinfo, options,
 			 uru ? (struct rusage __user *) &ru : NULL);