This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
MIPS: Drop spurious __unused in struct compat_flock
to the 4.15-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:
mips-drop-spurious-__unused-in-struct-compat_flock.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 6ae1756faddefd7494353380ee546dd38c2f97eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Hogan <jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:44:37 +0000
Subject: MIPS: Drop spurious __unused in struct compat_flock
From: James Hogan <jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 6ae1756faddefd7494353380ee546dd38c2f97eb upstream.
MIPS' struct compat_flock doesn't match the 32-bit struct flock, as it
has an extra short __unused before pad[4], which combined with alignment
increases the size to 40 bytes compared with struct flock's 36 bytes.
Since commit 8c6657cb50cb ("Switch flock copyin/copyout primitives to
copy_{from,to}_user()"), put_compat_flock() writes the full compat_flock
struct to userland, which results in corruption of the userland word
after the struct flock when running 32-bit userlands on 64-bit kernels.
This was observed to cause a bus error exception when starting Firefox
on Debian 8 (Jessie).
Reported-by: Peter Mamonov <pmamonov@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Peter Mamonov <pmamonov@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.13+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/18646/
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/include/asm/compat.h | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/compat.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/compat.h
@@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ struct compat_flock {
compat_off_t l_len;
s32 l_sysid;
compat_pid_t l_pid;
- short __unused;
s32 pad[4];
};
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.15/mips-drop-spurious-__unused-in-struct-compat_flock.patch