This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
audit: correct a type mismatch in audit_syscall_exit()
to the 3.12-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:
audit-correct-a-type-mismatch-in-audit_syscall_exit.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 06bdadd7634551cfe8ce071fe44d0311b3033d9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:33:09 -0800
Subject: audit: correct a type mismatch in audit_syscall_exit()
From: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 06bdadd7634551cfe8ce071fe44d0311b3033d9e upstream.
audit_syscall_exit() saves a result of regs_return_value() in intermediate
"int" variable and passes it to __audit_syscall_exit(), which expects its
second argument as a "long" value. This will result in truncating the
value returned by a system call and making a wrong audit record.
I don't know why gcc compiler doesn't complain about this, but anyway it
causes a problem at runtime on arm64 (and probably most 64-bit archs).
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/audit.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/audit.h
+++ b/include/linux/audit.h
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ static inline void audit_syscall_exit(vo
{
if (unlikely(current->audit_context)) {
int success = is_syscall_success(pt_regs);
- int return_code = regs_return_value(pt_regs);
+ long return_code = regs_return_value(pt_regs);
__audit_syscall_exit(success, return_code);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from takahiro.akashi@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/audit-correct-a-type-mismatch-in-audit_syscall_exit.patch
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