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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2012-11-26 09:23:57 +1100
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2012-11-26 09:23:57 +1100
commit2a859ab07b6ab66f4134c4fffc341398bd3d328c (patch)
treec5e7eaf3bffbc18feb326940e39794328d98dc07 /kernel/module.c
parentcedddd812a79a4fda3885a15711aee3de78c4a24 (diff)
parente716e014384688d1a50d1aa5213ee74748c6d4e0 (diff)
Merge branch 'merge' into next
Merge my own merge branch to get various fixes from there and upstream, especially the hvc console tty refcouting fixes which which testing is quite a bit harder...
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/module.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c26
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 0e2da8695f8..6085f5ef88e 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2421,25 +2421,17 @@ static inline void kmemleak_load_module(const struct module *mod,
#ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_SIG
static int module_sig_check(struct load_info *info,
- const void *mod, unsigned long *len)
+ const void *mod, unsigned long *_len)
{
int err = -ENOKEY;
- const unsigned long markerlen = sizeof(MODULE_SIG_STRING) - 1;
- const void *p = mod, *end = mod + *len;
-
- /* Poor man's memmem. */
- while ((p = memchr(p, MODULE_SIG_STRING[0], end - p))) {
- if (p + markerlen > end)
- break;
-
- if (memcmp(p, MODULE_SIG_STRING, markerlen) == 0) {
- const void *sig = p + markerlen;
- /* Truncate module up to signature. */
- *len = p - mod;
- err = mod_verify_sig(mod, *len, sig, end - sig);
- break;
- }
- p++;
+ unsigned long markerlen = sizeof(MODULE_SIG_STRING) - 1;
+ unsigned long len = *_len;
+
+ if (len > markerlen &&
+ memcmp(mod + len - markerlen, MODULE_SIG_STRING, markerlen) == 0) {
+ /* We truncate the module to discard the signature */
+ *_len -= markerlen;
+ err = mod_verify_sig(mod, _len);
}
if (!err) {