Thread (347 messages) flat view 347 messages, 3 authors, 2016-03-02
STALE3839d

[PATCH 4.4 161/342] sparc64: fix incorrect sign extension in sys_sparc64_personality

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2016-03-02 01:01:55
Also in: lkml

4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Dmitry V. Levin <redacted>

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 <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- 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)
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help