On Wednesday 09 September 2015 16:06:01 Jon Hunter wrote: > + > + idata = kcalloc(mcci.num_of_cmds, sizeof(*idata), GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!idata) { > + err = -ENOMEM; > + goto cmd_err; > + } > + > + cmds = (struct mmc_ioc_cmd __user *)(unsigned long)mcci.cmds_ptr; > + for (n_cmds = 0; n_cmds < mcci.num_of_cmds; n_cmds++) { > + idata[n_cmds] = mmc_blk_ioctl_copy_from_user(&cmds[n_cmds]); > + if (IS_ERR(idata[n_cmds])) { > + err = PTR_ERR(idata[n_cmds]); > + goto cmd_err; > + } > + } > + You have no upper bound on the number of commands, which means you end up catching overly large arguments only through -ENOMEM. Can you come up with an upper bound that is guaranteed to succeed with the allocation? Or would it be possible to process the user data one at a time while going through the commands? > +struct mmc_ioc_multi_cmd { > + __u64 cmds_ptr; > + uint8_t num_of_cmds; > +}; complex commands are always nasty in one way or another. Can you describe in the patch description why you picked an indirect pointer over something like struct mmc_ioc_multi_cmd { __u64 num_of_cmds; struct mmc_ioc_cmd cmds[0]; }; as I said, both are ugly. My first choice would have been the other one, but I'm sure you have some reasons yourself. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html