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Commit 118326e9 authored by Peter Osterlund's avatar Peter Osterlund Committed by Greg KH
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[PATCH] Fix root hole in pktcdvd



ioctl_by_bdev may only be used INSIDE the kernel.  If the "arg" argument
refers to memory that is accessed by put_user/get_user in the ioctl
function, the memory needs to be in the kernel address space (that's the
set_fs(KERNEL_DS) doing in the ioctl_by_bdev).  This works on i386 because
even with set_fs(KERNEL_DS) the user space memory is still accessible with
put_user/get_user.  That is not true for s390.  In short the ioctl
implementation of the pktcdvd device driver is horribly broken.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 68f66feb
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