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Our ABI for write() uses a s32 for FDs and a u32 for IDRs, but internally we ended up implicitly casting these ABI values into an 'int'. For ioctl() we use a s64 for FDs and a u64 for IDRs, again casting to an int. The various casts to int are all missing range checks which can cause userspace values that should be considered invalid to be accepted. Fix this by making the generic lookup routine accept a s64, which does not truncate the write API's u32/s32 or the ioctl API's s64. Then push the detailed range checking down to the actual type implementations to be shared by both interfaces. Finally, change the copy of the uobj->id to sign extend into a s64, so eg, if we ever wish to return a negative value for a FD it is carried properly. This ensures that userspace values are never weirdly interpreted due to the various trunctations and everything that is really out of range gets an EINVAL. Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.