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authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>2014-01-29 14:05:44 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-02-13 13:55:31 -0800
commitb6ee217853df0ccfdb0eb4c29f10f642bd342fef (patch)
treee9a8ea728d8f3954143dc5cde89066a54795e12b /fs
parent069dbea8d12b2eaa2590ff16e83c504499d3a5d5 (diff)
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fs/compat: fix parameter handling for compat readv/writev syscalls
commit dfd948e32af2e7b28bcd7a490c0a30d4b8df2a36 upstream. We got a report that the pwritev syscall does not work correctly in compat mode on s390. It turned out that with commit 72ec35163f9f ("switch compat readv/writev variants to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE") we lost the zero extension of a couple of syscall parameters because the some parameter types haven't been converted from unsigned long to compat_ulong_t. This is needed for architectures where the ABI requires that the caller of a function performed zero and/or sign extension to 64 bit of all parameters. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/read_write.c16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 58e440df1bc6..cfa18df30f5b 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -968,9 +968,9 @@ out:
return ret;
}
-COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(readv, unsigned long, fd,
+COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(readv, compat_ulong_t, fd,
const struct compat_iovec __user *,vec,
- unsigned long, vlen)
+ compat_ulong_t, vlen)
{
struct fd f = fdget(fd);
ssize_t ret;
@@ -1005,9 +1005,9 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(preadv64, unsigned long, fd,
return ret;
}
-COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE5(preadv, unsigned long, fd,
+COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE5(preadv, compat_ulong_t, fd,
const struct compat_iovec __user *,vec,
- unsigned long, vlen, u32, pos_low, u32, pos_high)
+ compat_ulong_t, vlen, u32, pos_low, u32, pos_high)
{
loff_t pos = ((loff_t)pos_high << 32) | pos_low;
return compat_sys_preadv64(fd, vec, vlen, pos);
@@ -1035,9 +1035,9 @@ out:
return ret;
}
-COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(writev, unsigned long, fd,
+COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(writev, compat_ulong_t, fd,
const struct compat_iovec __user *, vec,
- unsigned long, vlen)
+ compat_ulong_t, vlen)
{
struct fd f = fdget(fd);
ssize_t ret;
@@ -1072,9 +1072,9 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(pwritev64, unsigned long, fd,
return ret;
}
-COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE5(pwritev, unsigned long, fd,
+COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE5(pwritev, compat_ulong_t, fd,
const struct compat_iovec __user *,vec,
- unsigned long, vlen, u32, pos_low, u32, pos_high)
+ compat_ulong_t, vlen, u32, pos_low, u32, pos_high)
{
loff_t pos = ((loff_t)pos_high << 32) | pos_low;
return compat_sys_pwritev64(fd, vec, vlen, pos);