Hi stable folk, On 08/05/15 15:16, James Hogan wrote: > On 07/05/15 13:47, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote: >> Fix possible unintended sign extension in unsigned MMIO loads by casting >> to uint16_t in the case of mmio_needed != 2. >> >> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx> > > Looks good to me. I wrote an MMIO test to reproduce the issue, and this > fixes it. > > Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> > > It looks suitable for stable too (3.10+). This has reached mainline, commit ed9244e6c534612d2b5ae47feab2f55a0d4b4ced Please could it be added to stable (3.10+). Thanks James > > Cheers > James > >> --- >> >> Thanks to James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> for the explaination of >> mmio_needed (there is not really any helpful comment in the code on this) >> in this case (mmio_needed!=2) it should be unsigned. >> >> Patch was only compile tested msp71xx_defconfig + CONFIG_KVM=m >> >> Patch is against 4.1-rc2 (localversion-next is -next-20150506) >> >> arch/mips/kvm/emulate.c | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/arch/mips/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/mips/kvm/emulate.c >> index 6230f37..2f0fc60 100644 >> --- a/arch/mips/kvm/emulate.c >> +++ b/arch/mips/kvm/emulate.c >> @@ -2415,7 +2415,7 @@ enum emulation_result kvm_mips_complete_mmio_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, >> if (vcpu->mmio_needed == 2) >> *gpr = *(int16_t *) run->mmio.data; >> else >> - *gpr = *(int16_t *) run->mmio.data; >> + *gpr = *(uint16_t *)run->mmio.data; >> >> break; >> case 1: >> >
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