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net: remove address space warnings in net/socket.c

Message ID 1283867700-24132-1-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Namhyung Kim Sept. 7, 2010, 1:55 p.m. UTC 
Casts __kernel to __user pointer require __force markup, so add it. Also
sock_get/setsockopt() takes @optval and/or @optlen arguments as user pointers
but were taking kernel pointers, use new variables 'uoptval' and/or 'uoptlen'
to fix it. These remove following warnings from sparse:

 net/socket.c:1922:46: warning: cast adds address space to expression (<asn:1>)
 net/socket.c:3061:61: warning: incorrect type in argument 4 (different address spaces)
 net/socket.c:3061:61:    expected char [noderef] <asn:1>*optval
 net/socket.c:3061:61:    got char *optval
 net/socket.c:3061:69: warning: incorrect type in argument 5 (different address spaces)
 net/socket.c:3061:69:    expected int [noderef] <asn:1>*optlen
 net/socket.c:3061:69:    got int *optlen
 net/socket.c:3063:67: warning: incorrect type in argument 4 (different address spaces)
 net/socket.c:3063:67:    expected char [noderef] <asn:1>*optval
 net/socket.c:3063:67:    got char *optval
 net/socket.c:3064:45: warning: incorrect type in argument 5 (different address spaces)
 net/socket.c:3064:45:    expected int [noderef] <asn:1>*optlen
 net/socket.c:3064:45:    got int *optlen
 net/socket.c:3078:61: warning: incorrect type in argument 4 (different address spaces)
 net/socket.c:3078:61:    expected char [noderef] <asn:1>*optval
 net/socket.c:3078:61:    got char *optval
 net/socket.c:3080:67: warning: incorrect type in argument 4 (different address spaces)
 net/socket.c:3080:67:    expected char [noderef] <asn:1>*optval
 net/socket.c:3080:67:    got char *optval

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
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 net/socket.c |   21 +++++++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Comments

David Miller Sept. 8, 2010, 8:46 p.m. UTC | #1 
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Date: Tue,  7 Sep 2010 22:55:00 +0900

> Casts __kernel to __user pointer require __force markup, so add it. Also
> sock_get/setsockopt() takes @optval and/or @optlen arguments as user pointers
> but were taking kernel pointers, use new variables 'uoptval' and/or 'uoptlen'
> to fix it. These remove following warnings from sparse:
...
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thank you.
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diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index 2270b94..cb43f22 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -1919,7 +1919,8 @@  SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sendmsg, int, fd, struct msghdr __user *, msg, unsigned, flags)
 		 * Afterwards, it will be a kernel pointer. Thus the compiler-assisted
 		 * checking falls down on this.
 		 */
-		if (copy_from_user(ctl_buf, (void __user *)msg_sys.msg_control,
+		if (copy_from_user(ctl_buf,
+				   (void __user __force *)msg_sys.msg_control,
 				   ctl_len))
 			goto out_freectl;
 		msg_sys.msg_control = ctl_buf;
@@ -3054,14 +3055,19 @@  int kernel_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
 			char *optval, int *optlen)
 {
 	mm_segment_t oldfs = get_fs();
+	char __user *uoptval;
+	int __user *uoptlen;
 	int err;
 
+	uoptval = (char __user __force *) optval;
+	uoptlen = (int __user __force *) optlen;
+
 	set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
 	if (level == SOL_SOCKET)
-		err = sock_getsockopt(sock, level, optname, optval, optlen);
+		err = sock_getsockopt(sock, level, optname, uoptval, uoptlen);
 	else
-		err = sock->ops->getsockopt(sock, level, optname, optval,
-					    optlen);
+		err = sock->ops->getsockopt(sock, level, optname, uoptval,
+					    uoptlen);
 	set_fs(oldfs);
 	return err;
 }
@@ -3071,13 +3077,16 @@  int kernel_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
 			char *optval, unsigned int optlen)
 {
 	mm_segment_t oldfs = get_fs();
+	char __user *uoptval;
 	int err;
 
+	uoptval = (char __user __force *) optval;
+
 	set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
 	if (level == SOL_SOCKET)
-		err = sock_setsockopt(sock, level, optname, optval, optlen);
+		err = sock_setsockopt(sock, level, optname, uoptval, optlen);
 	else
-		err = sock->ops->setsockopt(sock, level, optname, optval,
+		err = sock->ops->setsockopt(sock, level, optname, uoptval,
 					    optlen);
 	set_fs(oldfs);
 	return err;