This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
[PATCH 2/2] Revert "fix minor infoleak in get_user_ex()"
to the 4.4-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:
0002-Revert-fix-minor-infoleak-in-get_user_ex.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 1123c59cf94697e3d6f7883305287d6c034814f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:14:06 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Revert "fix minor infoleak in get_user_ex()"
This reverts commit 9d25c78ec01c402dc56272693c44ef9d72ecdd2e which is
1c109fabbd51863475cd12ac206bdd249aee35af upstream
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h | 6 +-----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -394,11 +394,7 @@ do { \
#define __get_user_asm_ex(x, addr, itype, rtype, ltype) \
asm volatile("1: mov"itype" %1,%"rtype"0\n" \
"2:\n" \
- ".section .fixup,\"ax\"\n" \
- "3:xor"itype" %"rtype"0,%"rtype"0\n" \
- " jmp 2b\n" \
- ".previous\n" \
- _ASM_EXTABLE_EX(1b, 3b) \
+ _ASM_EXTABLE_EX(1b, 2b) \
: ltype(x) : "m" (__m(addr)))
#define __put_user_nocheck(x, ptr, size) \
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/0002-Revert-fix-minor-infoleak-in-get_user_ex.patch
queue-4.4/0001-Revert-x86-mm-Expand-the-exception-table-logic-to-al.patch
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