| Message ID | 1454508106-30686-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com |
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| State | New |
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diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c index 30e7ddb27a3a..c690c8e16a96 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c @@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ out: SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sparc64_personality, unsigned long, personality) { - int ret; + long ret; if (personality(current->personality) == PER_LINUX32 && personality(personality) == PER_LINUX)
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-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt24. 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 ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From b51db3dcd9d6e8df01b56ba5bce51e91361ba538 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@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@altlinux.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> --- arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)