This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled proc/vmcore: fix signedness bug in read_from_oldmem() to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: proc-vmcore-fix-signedness-bug-in-read_from_oldmem.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 641db40f3afe7998011bfabc726dba3e698f8196 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 20:03:16 +0300 Subject: proc/vmcore: fix signedness bug in read_from_oldmem() From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 641db40f3afe7998011bfabc726dba3e698f8196 upstream. The bug is the error handling: if (tmp < nr_bytes) { "tmp" can hold negative error codes but because "nr_bytes" is type size_t the negative error codes are treated as very high positive values (success). Fix this by changing "nr_bytes" to type ssize_t. The "nr_bytes" variable is used to store values between 1 and PAGE_SIZE and they can fit in ssize_t without any issue. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b55f7eed-1c65-4adc-95d1-6c7c65a54a6e@moroto.mountain Fixes: 5d8de293c224 ("vmcore: convert copy_oldmem_page() to take an iov_iter") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/vmcore.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c +++ b/fs/proc/vmcore.c @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ ssize_t read_from_oldmem(struct iov_iter u64 *ppos, bool encrypted) { unsigned long pfn, offset; - size_t nr_bytes; + ssize_t nr_bytes; ssize_t read = 0, tmp; int idx; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.1/drm-amd-display-unlock-on-error-path-in-dm_handle_ms.patch queue-6.1/phy-phy-mtk-dp-fix-an-error-code-in-probe.patch queue-6.1/staging-ks7010-potential-buffer-overflow-in-ks_wlan_set_encode_ext.patch queue-6.1/rdma-mlx4-make-check-for-invalid-flags-stricter.patch queue-6.1/revert-usb-xhci-tegra-fix-error-check.patch queue-6.1/tracing-probes-fix-to-avoid-double-count-of-the-stri.patch queue-6.1/proc-vmcore-fix-signedness-bug-in-read_from_oldmem.patch queue-6.1/revert-usb-gadget-tegra-xudc-fix-error-check-in-tegra_xudc_powerdomain_init.patch queue-6.1/phy-hisilicon-fix-an-out-of-bounds-check-in-hisi_inn.patch