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authorMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>2010-05-31 14:07:15 +0400
committerMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>2010-05-31 14:07:15 +0400
commite37c83c06c2690157a989df40dc99a6b61c9ea15 (patch)
tree024dfb8b2c9abeec9ca7cb0c0136c276d9aacc91 /mm/util.c
parentce1f7d30766f6549db6fa0b9e595e0d26a5b7d9a (diff)
parent67a3e12b05e055c0415c556a315a3d3eb637e29e (diff)
downloadlinux-e37c83c06c2690157a989df40dc99a6b61c9ea15.tar.xz
Merge commit 'v2.6.35-rc1' into for-2.6.36
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
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1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 834db7be240f..f5712e8964be 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -186,6 +186,27 @@ void kzfree(const void *p)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzfree);
+int kern_ptr_validate(const void *ptr, unsigned long size)
+{
+ unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)ptr;
+ unsigned long min_addr = PAGE_OFFSET;
+ unsigned long align_mask = sizeof(void *) - 1;
+
+ if (unlikely(addr < min_addr))
+ goto out;
+ if (unlikely(addr > (unsigned long)high_memory - size))
+ goto out;
+ if (unlikely(addr & align_mask))
+ goto out;
+ if (unlikely(!kern_addr_valid(addr)))
+ goto out;
+ if (unlikely(!kern_addr_valid(addr + size - 1)))
+ goto out;
+ return 1;
+out:
+ return 0;
+}
+
/*
* strndup_user - duplicate an existing string from user space
* @s: The string to duplicate