From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755124AbcA2By6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2016 20:54:58 -0500 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:33085 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753737AbcA2BWY (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2016 20:22:24 -0500 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: "Dmitry V. Levin" , "David S. Miller" , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 109/210] sparc64: fix incorrect sign extension in sys_sparc64_personality Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 17:17:27 -0800 Message-Id: <1454030348-17736-110-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 In-Reply-To: <1454030348-17736-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1454030348-17736-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.19 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.19.8-ckt14 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Dmitry V. Levin" 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- 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 30e7ddb..c690c8e 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) -- 1.9.1