Re: PATCH: 2.6.7-rc3 drivers/char/drm/gamma_dma.c: several user/kernel pointer bugs

From: viro
Date: Wed Jun 09 2004 - 21:04:51 EST


On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 03:53:40PM -0700, Robert T. Johnson wrote:
> gamma_dma_priority and gamma_dma_send_buffers both deref d->send_indices
> and/or d->send_sizes. When these functions are called from gamma_dma,
> these pointers are user pointers and are thus not safe to deref. This patch
> copies over the pointers inside gamma_dma_priority and
> gamma_dma_send_buffers. Let me know if you have any questions or if I've
> made a mistake.

ACK.
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