On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 09:28:48AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 05:41:07PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Sami pointed out to me that 4 of 6 patches in Linus's tree that were
> > cleaning up the x86 syscall function prototypes didn't make it into
> > -stable.
> >
> > These were backported:
> >
> > 8661d769ab77 ("syscalls/x86: Use the correct function type in SYSCALL_DEFINE0")
> > (as e79138ba8e0ec84f3ab5daa4761e4d534bbc682d)
> > f53e2cd0b8ab ("x86/mm: Use the correct function type for native_set_fixmap()")
> > (as a823d762a57519adeb33f5f12f761d636e42d32e)
> >
> > But these are missing, leading to some confusion when working with v5.4
> > under CFI:
> >
> > cf3b83e19d7c928e05a5d193c375463182c6029a
> > 00198a6eaf66609de5e4de9163bb42c7ca9dd7b7
> > f48f01a92cca09e86d46c91d8edf9d5a71c61727
> > 6e4847640c6aebcaa2d9b3686cecc91b41f09269
> >
> > Can these get added please?
>
> I've queued them up now. But for 4.19, are these also needed? If so,
> f48f01a92cca ("syscalls/x86: Use the correct function type for
> sys_ni_syscall") needs a backport for it to work properly.
I think, for now, we don't need to. v5.4 should be enough. Thanks!
-Kees
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Kees Cook
