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authorTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>2015-06-16 11:36:47 -0400
committerTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>2015-06-16 11:37:50 -0400
commit3438995bc43939ed1502bb2639ff7007169574ea (patch)
tree079a2732cc9eacb98200914c1278aee264b89ba9 /lib/strnlen_user.c
parent5ba12443a132420be45d089e4c4ac8a1e26b7da8 (diff)
parent40c6ed0c8a7f2c5d67f5d6774bbce230a42176db (diff)
Merge tag 'nfs-rdma-for-4.2' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/anna/nfs-rdma
NFS: NFSoRDMA Client Changes These patches continue to build up for improving the rsize and wsize that the NFS client uses when talking over RDMA. In addition, these patches also add in scalability enhancements and other bugfixes. Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com> * tag 'nfs-rdma-for-4.2' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/anna/nfs-rdma: (142 commits) xprtrdma: Reduce per-transport MR allocation xprtrdma: Stack relief in fmr_op_map() xprtrdma: Split rb_lock xprtrdma: Remove rpcrdma_ia::ri_memreg_strategy xprtrdma: Remove ->ro_reset xprtrdma: Remove unused LOCAL_INV recovery logic xprtrdma: Acquire MRs in rpcrdma_register_external() xprtrdma: Introduce an FRMR recovery workqueue xprtrdma: Acquire FMRs in rpcrdma_fmr_register_external() xprtrdma: Introduce helpers for allocating MWs xprtrdma: Use ib_device pointer safely xprtrdma: Remove rr_func xprtrdma: Replace rpcrdma_rep::rr_buffer with rr_rxprt xprtrdma: Warn when there are orphaned IB objects ...
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/strnlen_user.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/strnlen_user.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/strnlen_user.c b/lib/strnlen_user.c
index a28df5206d95..fe9a32591c24 100644
--- a/lib/strnlen_user.c
+++ b/lib/strnlen_user.c
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ static inline long do_strnlen_user(const char __user *src, unsigned long count,
return res + find_zero(data) + 1 - align;
}
res += sizeof(unsigned long);
- if (unlikely(max < sizeof(unsigned long)))
+ /* We already handled 'unsigned long' bytes. Did we do it all ? */
+ if (unlikely(max <= sizeof(unsigned long)))
break;
max -= sizeof(unsigned long);
if (unlikely(__get_user(c,(unsigned long __user *)(src+res))))
@@ -89,8 +90,15 @@ static inline long do_strnlen_user(const char __user *src, unsigned long count,
* Get the size of a NUL-terminated string in user space.
*
* Returns the size of the string INCLUDING the terminating NUL.
- * If the string is too long, returns 'count+1'.
+ * If the string is too long, returns a number larger than @count. User
+ * has to check the return value against "> count".
* On exception (or invalid count), returns 0.
+ *
+ * NOTE! You should basically never use this function. There is
+ * almost never any valid case for using the length of a user space
+ * string, since the string can be changed at any time by other
+ * threads. Use "strncpy_from_user()" instead to get a stable copy
+ * of the string.
*/
long strnlen_user(const char __user *str, long count)
{