[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "net: rds: use correct size for max unacked packets and bytes" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    net: rds: use correct size for max unacked packets and bytes

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt8.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 8f0bdbadd515640b6c7b463d07dda96a5091509c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin at oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 08:55:58 -0500
Subject: net: rds: use correct size for max unacked packets and bytes

commit db27ebb111e9f69efece08e4cb6a34ff980f8896 upstream.

Max unacked packets/bytes is an int while sizeof(long) was used in the
sysctl table.

This means that when they were getting read we'd also leak kernel memory
to userspace along with the timeout values.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Cc: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm at inutil.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/rds/sysctl.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rds/sysctl.c b/net/rds/sysctl.c
index c3b0cd43eb56..c173f69e1479 100644
--- a/net/rds/sysctl.c
+++ b/net/rds/sysctl.c
@@ -71,14 +71,14 @@ static struct ctl_table rds_sysctl_rds_table[] = {
 	{
 		.procname	= "max_unacked_packets",
 		.data		= &rds_sysctl_max_unacked_packets,
-		.maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned long),
+		.maxlen         = sizeof(int),
 		.mode           = 0644,
 		.proc_handler   = proc_dointvec,
 	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "max_unacked_bytes",
 		.data		= &rds_sysctl_max_unacked_bytes,
-		.maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned long),
+		.maxlen         = sizeof(int),
 		.mode           = 0644,
 		.proc_handler   = proc_dointvec,
 	},