This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/mpx: Use compatible types in comparison to fix sparse error
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:
x86-mpx-use-compatible-types-in-comparison-to-fix-sparse-error.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 foo@baz Mon Jul 3 13:34:03 CEST 2017
From: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:53:11 +0100
Subject: x86/mpx: Use compatible types in comparison to fix sparse error
From: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 453828625731d0ba7218242ef6ec88f59408f368 ]
info->si_addr is of type void __user *, so it should be compared against
something from the same address space.
This fixes the following sparse error:
arch/x86/mm/mpx.c:296:27: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/mpx.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/mm/mpx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/mpx.c
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ siginfo_t *mpx_generate_siginfo(struct p
* We were not able to extract an address from the instruction,
* probably because there was something invalid in it.
*/
- if (info->si_addr == (void *)-1) {
+ if (info->si_addr == (void __user *)-1) {
err = -EINVAL;
goto err_out;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/x86-mpx-use-compatible-types-in-comparison-to-fix-sparse-error.patch