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authorJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>2010-04-30 13:37:29 -0700
committerJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>2010-04-30 13:37:29 -0700
commitf9221fd80343285514568da6c5dbda0f87109de8 (patch)
tree3a2f0077ebea9d094bdeedb319c97cb591d51c51 /mm/util.c
parenta36d515c7a2dfacebcf41729f6812dbc424ebcf0 (diff)
parenta9743fcdc0eb43d028b71267438076e1b0112ba0 (diff)
Merge branch 'skip_delete_inode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2-mark into ocfs2-fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/util.c21
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 834db7be240f..f5712e8964be 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -186,6 +186,27 @@ void kzfree(const void *p)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzfree);
+int kern_ptr_validate(const void *ptr, unsigned long size)
+{
+ unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)ptr;
+ unsigned long min_addr = PAGE_OFFSET;
+ unsigned long align_mask = sizeof(void *) - 1;
+
+ if (unlikely(addr < min_addr))
+ goto out;
+ if (unlikely(addr > (unsigned long)high_memory - size))
+ goto out;
+ if (unlikely(addr & align_mask))
+ goto out;
+ if (unlikely(!kern_addr_valid(addr)))
+ goto out;
+ if (unlikely(!kern_addr_valid(addr + size - 1)))
+ goto out;
+ return 1;
+out:
+ return 0;
+}
+
/*
* strndup_user - duplicate an existing string from user space
* @s: The string to duplicate