This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled osf_wait4(): fix infoleak to the 3.18-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: osf_wait4-fix-infoleak.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a8c39544a6eb2093c04afd5005b6192bd0e880c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 21:47:25 -0400 Subject: osf_wait4(): fix infoleak From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit a8c39544a6eb2093c04afd5005b6192bd0e880c6 upstream. failing sys_wait4() won't fill struct rusage... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c @@ -1183,8 +1183,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(osf_wait4, pid_t, pid, i if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, ur, sizeof(*ur))) return -EFAULT; - err = 0; - err |= put_user(status, ustatus); + err = put_user(status, ustatus); + if (ret < 0) + return err ? err : ret; + err |= __put_user(r.ru_utime.tv_sec, &ur->ru_utime.tv_sec); err |= __put_user(r.ru_utime.tv_usec, &ur->ru_utime.tv_usec); err |= __put_user(r.ru_stime.tv_sec, &ur->ru_stime.tv_sec); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/metag-uaccess-check-access_ok-in-strncpy_from_user.patch queue-3.18/osf_wait4-fix-infoleak.patch queue-3.18/metag-uaccess-fix-access_ok.patch