[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "cpupower: Fix segfault due to incorrect getopt_long arugments" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Jan 9 12:03:40 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    cpupower: Fix segfault due to incorrect getopt_long arugments

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 3bf5d63a0185b4b2e91d685352aa3c4845703995 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 08:45:51 -0400
Subject: cpupower: Fix segfault due to incorrect getopt_long arugments

commit f447ef4a56dee4b68a91460bcdfe06b5011085f2 upstream.

If a user calls 'cpupower set --perf-bias 15', the process will end with
a SIGSEGV in libc because cpupower-set passes a NULL optarg to the atoi
call.  This is because the getopt_long structure currently has all of
the options as having an optional_argument when they really have a
required argument.  We change the structure to use required_argument to
match the short options and it resolves the issue.

This fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1000439

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux at dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 tools/power/cpupower/utils/cpupower-set.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/power/cpupower/utils/cpupower-set.c b/tools/power/cpupower/utils/cpupower-set.c
index dc4de37..bcf1d2f 100644
--- a/tools/power/cpupower/utils/cpupower-set.c
+++ b/tools/power/cpupower/utils/cpupower-set.c
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@
 #include "helpers/bitmask.h"

 static struct option set_opts[] = {
-	{ .name = "perf-bias",	.has_arg = optional_argument,	.flag = NULL,	.val = 'b'},
-	{ .name = "sched-mc",	.has_arg = optional_argument,	.flag = NULL,	.val = 'm'},
-	{ .name = "sched-smt",	.has_arg = optional_argument,	.flag = NULL,	.val = 's'},
+	{ .name = "perf-bias",	.has_arg = required_argument,	.flag = NULL,	.val = 'b'},
+	{ .name = "sched-mc",	.has_arg = required_argument,	.flag = NULL,	.val = 'm'},
+	{ .name = "sched-smt",	.has_arg = required_argument,	.flag = NULL,	.val = 's'},
 	{ },
 };

--
1.8.3.2





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