On 07/03/2011 12:00 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>          }
>>
>>  Otherwise we might write over data the user expected. And that logic that 
tells to copy_to_user how much data it actually takes to put all the information in 
is not there today and would have to be added. You can even verify that required_size 
with the ioctl passed size to make 100% sure user space is sane, but I'd claim that a 
feature bitmap is plenty of information to ensure that we're not doing something 
stupid.
>
>  I don't see why we have to caclulate something, then verify it against the 
correct answer.

Ah, I think I'm grasping your idea. You'd simply truncate the resulting struct 
according to the size passed by the ioctl and call it a day. Well, that works 
too. User space simply wouldn't be able to know if all information actually fit 
into the struct, but I guess that's fine :).


Right. The idea is that if KVM_FLAG_BLAH implies a field kvm_struct::blah, then either both are present in the headers, or none of them.

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