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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2013-03-11 14:37:35 -0700
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2013-03-13 21:17:28 +0100
commit3058753583c6a641bac188011b4d777adec916c9 (patch)
tree48378ab7c65d8545d1a427dc4fa5a8d8668a4c74 /drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
parent647416f9eefe7699754b01b9fc82758fde83248c (diff)
drm/i915: clarify reasoning for the access_ok call
This clarifies the comment above the access_ok check so a missing VERIFY_READ doesn't alarm anyone. v2: - rewrote comment, thanks to Chris Wilson Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> [danvet: add patch history log to commit message.] Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
index 934396c5f048..ea963c32772d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
@@ -747,7 +747,11 @@ validate_exec_list(struct drm_i915_gem_exec_object2 *exec,
length = exec[i].relocation_count *
sizeof(struct drm_i915_gem_relocation_entry);
- /* we may also need to update the presumed offsets */
+ /*
+ * We must check that the entire relocation array is safe
+ * to read, but since we may need to update the presumed
+ * offsets during execution, check for full write access.
+ */
if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, ptr, length))
return -EFAULT;