This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dma-buf/sw-sync: Prevent user overflow on timeline advance to the 4.9-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: dma-buf-sw-sync-prevent-user-overflow-on-timeline-advance.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 8f66d3aa1735bc95ae58d846a157357e8d41abb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 13:59:26 +0100 Subject: dma-buf/sw-sync: Prevent user overflow on timeline advance From: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 8f66d3aa1735bc95ae58d846a157357e8d41abb8 upstream. The timeline is u32, which limits any single advance to INT_MAX so that we can detect all fences that need signaling. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170629125930.821-3-chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [s/dma_fence/fence/g - gregkh] Cc: Jisheng Zhang <Jisheng.Zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/dma-buf/sw_sync.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/dma-buf/sw_sync.c +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/sw_sync.c @@ -345,6 +345,11 @@ static long sw_sync_ioctl_inc(struct syn if (copy_from_user(&value, (void __user *)arg, sizeof(value))) return -EFAULT; + while (value > INT_MAX) { + sync_timeline_signal(obj, INT_MAX); + value -= INT_MAX; + } + sync_timeline_signal(obj, value); return 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/dma-buf-sw-sync-fix-the-is-signaled-test-to-handle-u32-wraparound.patch queue-4.9/dma-fence-clear-fence-status-during-dma_fence_init.patch queue-4.9/dma-buf-sw-sync-fix-locking-around-sync_timeline-lists.patch queue-4.9/dma-fence-wrap-querying-the-fence-status.patch queue-4.9/dma-buf-sw_sync-clean-up-list-before-signaling-the-fence.patch queue-4.9/dma-buf-sw-sync-reduce-irqsave-irqrestore-from-known-context.patch queue-4.9/dma-buf-sw_sync-move-timeline_fence_ops-around.patch queue-4.9/dma-buf-sw-sync-prevent-user-overflow-on-timeline-advance.patch queue-4.9/dma-fence-introduce-drm_fence_set_error-helper.patch queue-4.9/dma-buf-sw_sync-force-signal-all-unsignaled-fences-on-dying-timeline.patch queue-4.9/dma-buf-sw-sync-use-an-rbtree-to-sort-fences-in-the-timeline.patch queue-4.9/dma-buf-sw-sync-sync_pt-is-private-and-of-fixed-size.patch queue-4.9/dma-buf-dma-fence-extract-__dma_fence_is_later.patch