When compiling mm/mempolicy.c the following warning is shown.
In file included from arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:572,
from include/linux/uaccess.h:5,
from include/linux/highmem.h:7,
from include/linux/pagemap.h:10,
from include/linux/mempolicy.h:70,
from mm/mempolicy.c:68:
In function `copy_from_user',
inlined from `compat_sys_get_mempolicy' at mm/mempolicy.c:1415:
arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:64: warning: call to `copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
LD mm/built-in.o
Fix this by passing correct buffer size value.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
err = sys_get_mempolicy(policy, nm, nr_bits+1, addr, flags);
if (!err && nmask) {
- err = copy_from_user(bm, nm, alloc_size);
+ unsigned long copy_size;
+ copy_size = min_t(unsigned long, sizeof(bm), alloc_size);
+ err = copy_from_user(bm, nm, copy_size);
/* ensure entire bitmap is zeroed */
err |= clear_user(nmask, ALIGN(maxnode-1, 8) / 8);
err |= compat_put_bitmap(nmask, bm, nr_bits);