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 3.13-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-3.13 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 @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ 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-3.13/audit-correct-a-type-mismatch-in-audit_syscall_exit.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html