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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2010-05-07 11:29:25 +1000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2010-05-07 11:29:25 +1000
commit1ed31d6db90d51010545921e59d369d2f92b7ac2 (patch)
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Merge commit 'origin/master' into next
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diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 834db7be240..f5712e8964b 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -186,6 +186,27 @@ void kzfree(const void *p)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzfree);
+int kern_ptr_validate(const void *ptr, unsigned long size)
+{
+ unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)ptr;
+ unsigned long min_addr = PAGE_OFFSET;
+ unsigned long align_mask = sizeof(void *) - 1;
+
+ if (unlikely(addr < min_addr))
+ goto out;
+ if (unlikely(addr > (unsigned long)high_memory - size))
+ goto out;
+ if (unlikely(addr & align_mask))
+ goto out;
+ if (unlikely(!kern_addr_valid(addr)))
+ goto out;
+ if (unlikely(!kern_addr_valid(addr + size - 1)))
+ goto out;
+ return 1;
+out:
+ return 0;
+}
+
/*
* strndup_user - duplicate an existing string from user space
* @s: The string to duplicate