On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 5:37 PM Florent Revest <revest@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Defining a prctl flag as an int is a footgun because on a 64 bit machine > and with a variadic implementation of prctl (like in musl and glibc), > when used directly as a prctl argument, it can get casted to long with > garbage upper bits which would result in unexpected behaviors. > > This patch changes the constant to an unsigned long to eliminate that > possibilities. This does not break UAPI. > > Fixes: b507808ebce2 ("mm: implement memory-deny-write-execute as a prctl") > Cc: linux-stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Oops, this was supposed to be stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx... I'll fix that tag as part of v4.