This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sparc64: don't treat 64-bit syscall return codes as 32-bit to the 3.4-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: sparc64-don-t-treat-64-bit-syscall-return-codes-as-32-bit.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Mon Apr 14 15:35:09 PDT 2014 From: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:42:01 -0500 Subject: sparc64: don't treat 64-bit syscall return codes as 32-bit From: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 1535bd8adbdedd60a0ee62e28fd5225d66434371 ] When checking a system call return code for an error, linux_sparc_syscall was sign-extending the lower 32-bit value and comparing it to -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK. lseek can return valid return codes whose lower 32-bits alone would indicate a failure (such as 4G-1). Use the whole 64-bit value to check for errors. Only the 32-bit path should sign extend the lower 32-bit value. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Allen Pais <allen.pais@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: sparclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls.S | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls.S +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls.S @@ -184,7 +184,8 @@ linux_sparc_syscall32: mov %i0, %l5 ! IEU1 5: call %l7 ! CTI Group brk forced srl %i5, 0, %o5 ! IEU1 - ba,a,pt %xcc, 3f + ba,pt %xcc, 3f + sra %o0, 0, %o0 /* Linux native system calls enter here... */ .align 32 @@ -212,7 +213,6 @@ linux_sparc_syscall: 3: stx %o0, [%sp + PTREGS_OFF + PT_V9_I0] ret_sys_call: ldx [%sp + PTREGS_OFF + PT_V9_TSTATE], %g3 - sra %o0, 0, %o0 mov %ulo(TSTATE_XCARRY | TSTATE_ICARRY), %g2 sllx %g2, 32, %g2 Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.4/sparc64-don-t-treat-64-bit-syscall-return-codes-as-32-bit.patch queue-3.4/revert-sparc64-fix-__copy_-to-from-_user_inatomic-defines.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