[PATCH v3 1/4] exec: introduce get_arg_ptr() helper

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

Introduce get_arg_ptr() helper, convert count() and copy_strings()
to use it.

No functional changes, preparation. This helper is trivial, it just
reads the pointer from argv/envp user-space array.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---

 fs/exec.c |   36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

--- 38/fs/exec.c~1_get_arg_ptr	2011-03-02 15:15:27.000000000 +0100
+++ 38/fs/exec.c	2011-03-02 15:16:44.000000000 +0100
@@ -395,6 +395,17 @@ err:
 	return err;
 }
 
+static const char __user *
+get_arg_ptr(const char __user * const __user *argv, int argc)
+{
+	const char __user *ptr;
+
+	if (get_user(ptr, argv + argc))
+		return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
+
+	return ptr;
+}
+
 /*
  * count() counts the number of strings in array ARGV.
  */
@@ -404,13 +415,14 @@ static int count(const char __user * con
 
 	if (argv != NULL) {
 		for (;;) {
-			const char __user * p;
+			const char __user *p = get_arg_ptr(argv, i);
 
-			if (get_user(p, argv))
-				return -EFAULT;
 			if (!p)
 				break;
-			argv++;
+
+			if (IS_ERR(p))
+				return -EFAULT;
+
 			if (i++ >= max)
 				return -E2BIG;
 
@@ -440,16 +452,18 @@ static int copy_strings(int argc, const 
 		int len;
 		unsigned long pos;
 
-		if (get_user(str, argv+argc) ||
-				!(len = strnlen_user(str, MAX_ARG_STRLEN))) {
-			ret = -EFAULT;
+		ret = -EFAULT;
+		str = get_arg_ptr(argv, argc);
+		if (IS_ERR(str))
 			goto out;
-		}
 
-		if (!valid_arg_len(bprm, len)) {
-			ret = -E2BIG;
+		len = strnlen_user(str, MAX_ARG_STRLEN);
+		if (!len)
+			goto out;
+
+		ret = -E2BIG;
+		if (!valid_arg_len(bprm, len))
 			goto out;
-		}
 
 		/* We're going to work our way backwords. */
 		pos = bprm->p;