The change is very straightforward, and helps unify the syscall interface for struct-from-userspace syscalls. Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/events/core.c | 47 +++++++++----------------------------------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 4655adbbae10..3f0cb82e4fbc 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -10586,55 +10586,26 @@ static int perf_copy_attr(struct perf_event_attr __user *uattr, u32 size; int ret; - if (!access_ok(uattr, PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER0)) - return -EFAULT; - - /* - * zero the full structure, so that a short copy will be nice. - */ + /* Zero the full structure, so that a short copy will be nice. */ memset(attr, 0, sizeof(*attr)); ret = get_user(size, &uattr->size); if (ret) return ret; - if (size > PAGE_SIZE) /* silly large */ - goto err_size; - - if (!size) /* abi compat */ + /* ABI compatibility quirk: */ + if (!size) size = PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER0; - - if (size < PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER0) + if (size < PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER0 || size > PAGE_SIZE) goto err_size; - /* - * If we're handed a bigger struct than we know of, - * ensure all the unknown bits are 0 - i.e. new - * user-space does not rely on any kernel feature - * extensions we dont know about yet. - */ - if (size > sizeof(*attr)) { - unsigned char __user *addr; - unsigned char __user *end; - unsigned char val; - - addr = (void __user *)uattr + sizeof(*attr); - end = (void __user *)uattr + size; - - for (; addr < end; addr++) { - ret = get_user(val, addr); - if (ret) - return ret; - if (val) - goto err_size; - } - size = sizeof(*attr); + ret = copy_struct_from_user(attr, sizeof(*attr), uattr, size); + if (ret) { + if (ret == -E2BIG) + goto err_size; + return ret; } - ret = copy_from_user(attr, uattr, size); - if (ret) - return -EFAULT; - attr->size = size; if (attr->__reserved_1) -- 2.23.0