From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 4.1 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== [ Upstream commit f35c1e0671728d1c9abc405d05ef548b5fcb2fc4 ] It's -EFAULT, not -1 (and contrary to the comment in there, __strnlen_user() can return 0 - on faults). Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Acked-by: Richard Kuo <rkuo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/hexagon/include/asm/uaccess.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/hexagon/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/hexagon/include/asm/uaccess.h index e4127e4..25fc904 100644 --- a/arch/hexagon/include/asm/uaccess.h +++ b/arch/hexagon/include/asm/uaccess.h @@ -102,7 +102,8 @@ static inline long hexagon_strncpy_from_user(char *dst, const char __user *src, { long res = __strnlen_user(src, n); - /* return from strnlen can't be zero -- that would be rubbish. */ + if (unlikely(!res)) + return -EFAULT; if (res > n) { copy_from_user(dst, src, n); -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html