slab: Generify kernel pointer validation
As suggested by Linus, introduce a kern_ptr_validate() helper that does some
sanity checks to make sure a pointer is a valid kernel pointer. This is a
preparational step for fixing SLUB kmem_ptr_validate().
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 834db7b..f5712e8 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -186,6 +186,27 @@
}
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