This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sparc64: make string buffers large enough 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: sparc64-make-string-buffers-large-enough.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 b5c3206190f1fddd100b3060eb15f0d775ffeab8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 14:03:55 +0300 Subject: sparc64: make string buffers large enough From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit b5c3206190f1fddd100b3060eb15f0d775ffeab8 upstream. My static checker complains that if "lvl" is ULONG_MAX (this is 64 bit) then some of the strings will overflow. I don't know if that's possible but it seems simple enough to make the buffers slightly larger. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/sparc/kernel/traps_64.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/traps_64.c +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/traps_64.c @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static void dump_tl1_traplog(struct tl1_ void bad_trap(struct pt_regs *regs, long lvl) { - char buffer[32]; + char buffer[36]; siginfo_t info; if (notify_die(DIE_TRAP, "bad trap", regs, @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ void bad_trap(struct pt_regs *regs, long void bad_trap_tl1(struct pt_regs *regs, long lvl) { - char buffer[32]; + char buffer[36]; if (notify_die(DIE_TRAP_TL1, "bad trap tl1", regs, 0, lvl, SIGTRAP) == NOTIFY_STOP) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/sparc64-make-string-buffers-large-enough.patch