[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "sparc64: fix incorrect sign extension in sys_sparc64_personality" has been added to the 3.13.y-ckt tree
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Tue Feb 2 00:36:11 UTC 2016
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
sparc64: fix incorrect sign extension in sys_sparc64_personality
to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt34.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Kamal
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>From 7a1d8516123d227cffda8baf0ee6833468d2d71e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv at altlinux.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 02:13:27 +0300
Subject: sparc64: fix incorrect sign extension in sys_sparc64_personality
commit 525fd5a94e1be0776fa652df5c687697db508c91 upstream.
The value returned by sys_personality has type "long int".
It is saved to a variable of type "int", which is not a problem
yet because the type of task_struct->pesonality is "unsigned int".
The problem is the sign extension from "int" to "long int"
that happens on return from sys_sparc64_personality.
For example, a userspace call personality((unsigned) -EINVAL) will
result to any subsequent personality call, including absolutely
harmless read-only personality(0xffffffff) call, failing with
errno set to EINVAL.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv at altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c
index 25db14a..47ae8d7 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ out:
SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sparc64_personality, unsigned long, personality)
{
- int ret;
+ long ret;
if (personality(current->personality) == PER_LINUX32 &&
personality(personality) == PER_LINUX)
--
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