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Commit 01db403c authored by David S. Miller's avatar David S. Miller
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tcp: Fix >4GB writes on 64-bit.



Fixes kernel bugzilla #16603

tcp_sendmsg() truncates iov_len to an 'int' which a 4GB write to write
zero bytes, for example.

There is also the problem higher up of how verify_iovec() works.  It
wants to prevent the total length from looking like an error return
value.

However it does this using 'int', but syscalls return 'long' (and
thus signed 64-bit on 64-bit machines).  So it could trigger
false-positives on 64-bit as written.  So fix it to use 'long'.

Reported-by: default avatarOlaf Bonorden <bono@onlinehome.de>
Reported-by: default avatarDaniel Büse <dbuese@gmx.de>
Reported-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 0b20406c
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