When the spidev module tries to access the user space memory passed in via an IOCTL the compat_ptr function should be called to ensure compatibility between kernel space and user space. Signed-off-by: Dan Sneddon <dsneddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spidev.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spidev.c b/drivers/spi/spidev.c index e3bc23b..3a45158 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spidev.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spidev.c @@ -252,14 +252,16 @@ static int spidev_message(struct spidev_data *spidev, if (u_tmp->rx_buf) { k_tmp->rx_buf = buf; if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, (u8 __user *) - (uintptr_t) u_tmp->rx_buf, + (uintptr_t)compat_ptr( + u_tmp->rx_buf), u_tmp->len)) goto done; } if (u_tmp->tx_buf) { k_tmp->tx_buf = buf; if (copy_from_user(buf, (const u8 __user *) - (uintptr_t) u_tmp->tx_buf, + (uintptr_t)compat_ptr( + u_tmp->tx_buf), u_tmp->len)) goto done; } @@ -294,8 +296,8 @@ static int spidev_message(struct spidev_data *spidev, for (n = n_xfers, u_tmp = u_xfers; n; n--, u_tmp++) { if (u_tmp->rx_buf) { if (__copy_to_user((u8 __user *) - (uintptr_t) u_tmp->rx_buf, buf, - u_tmp->len)) { + (uintptr_t)compat_ptr(u_tmp->rx_buf), + buf, u_tmp->len)) { status = -EFAULT; goto done; } -- 1.8.4 --- sent by an employee of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html