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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2013-03-11 14:37:35 -0700 |
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| committer | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2013-03-13 21:17:28 +0100 |
| commit | 3058753583c6a641bac188011b4d777adec916c9 (patch) | |
| tree | 48378ab7c65d8545d1a427dc4fa5a8d8668a4c74 /drivers/gpu/drm/i915 | |
| parent | 647416f9eefe7699754b01b9fc82758fde83248c (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')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 6 |
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; |