i40e: don't store user requested mode until we've validated it
authorJacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Wed, 4 Jun 2014 04:22:44 +0000 (04:22 +0000)
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:45:00 +0000 (04:45 -0700)
This patch prevents the SIOCGHWTSTAMP ioctl from possibly returning bad
data, by not permanently storing the setting into the private
structure until after we've finished validating that we can support it.

Change-ID: Ib59f9b4f73f451d5a2e76fb8efa5d4271b218433
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.c

index e5f558c9d7d01e2946be03897a3abd056c67b504..f7dded9976e97bcb37fbe2944323d1934e97ebf4 100644 (file)
@@ -549,17 +549,20 @@ static int i40e_ptp_set_timestamp_mode(struct i40e_pf *pf,
  **/
 int i40e_ptp_set_ts_config(struct i40e_pf *pf, struct ifreq *ifr)
 {
-       struct hwtstamp_config *config = &pf->tstamp_config;
+       struct hwtstamp_config config;
        int err;
 
-       if (copy_from_user(config, ifr->ifr_data, sizeof(*config)))
+       if (copy_from_user(&config, ifr->ifr_data, sizeof(config)))
                return -EFAULT;
 
-       err = i40e_ptp_set_timestamp_mode(pf, config);
+       err = i40e_ptp_set_timestamp_mode(pf, &config);
        if (err)
                return err;
 
-       return copy_to_user(ifr->ifr_data, config, sizeof(*config)) ?
+       /* save these settings for future reference */
+       pf->tstamp_config = config;
+
+       return copy_to_user(ifr->ifr_data, &config, sizeof(config)) ?
                -EFAULT : 0;
 }