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

[Kamal Mostafa]

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-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.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-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.16.

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

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 69876ee39f4692483e07ab3724589ab9a72af1e9 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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal 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'},
 	{ },
 };

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1.8.3.2