On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 03:01:18PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 01:31:17PM +0200, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > In the original code there was a potential integer overflow if you > > passed in a large cmd.ne. The calls to kmalloc() would allocate smaller > > buffers than intended, leading to memory corruption. > > Keep in mind these are probably performance sensitive APIs, I was > imagining batching a small number and they copy_to_user ? No idea what > the various performance trades offs are.. > > > Please, please, check this. I've think I've done it right, but I don't > > have the hardware and can not test it. > > Nor, do I.. I actually don't know what hardware uses this path? The > Mellanox cards use a user-space only version. > > Maybe an iwarp card? I kinda recall some recent messages concerning > memory allocations in these paths for iwarp. I wonder if removing the > allocation is such a big win the larger number of copy_to_user calls > does not matter? > Who knows? The reason I'm writing this is to fix a potential security issue, but I think that viewed from a holistic perspective this patch is also a performance improvement over the original code because it avoids the big kmalloc()s. Doing the copy_to_user() in batches of PAGE_SIZE might be better but it's more complicated and I'm very lazy... :/ If someone steps up to do the benchmarks then I might take a look at it. > > It's strange to me that we return "in_len" on success. > > Agree.. > > > +static int copy_header_to_user(void __user *dest, u32 count) > > +{ > > + u32 header[2]; /* the second u32 is reserved */ > > + > > + memset(header, 0, sizeof(header)); > > Don't you need header[0] = count ? > Yes. Thank you for catching that. > Maybe: > u32 header[2] = {count}; > > And let the compiler 0 the other word optimally. Also, I'm not matters > here, since you are zeroing user memory that isn't currently used.. It does matter, because we don't want to leak information to the user. > > > +static int copy_wc_to_user(void __user *dest, struct ib_wc *wc) > > +{ > > + struct ib_uverbs_wc tmp; > > + > > + memset(&tmp, 0, sizeof(tmp)); > > I'd really like to see that memset go away for performance. Again > maybe use named initializers and let the compiler zero the > uninitialized (does it zero padding, I wonder?). Or pre-zero this > memory outside the loop.. > Good idea. Yes, it does do zero padding. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html