This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled __bitmap_parselist: fix bug in empty string handling to the 3.14-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: __bitmap_parselist-fix-bug-in-empty-string-handling.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 2528a8b8f457d7432552d0e2b6f0f4046bb702f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:02:08 -0700 Subject: __bitmap_parselist: fix bug in empty string handling From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 2528a8b8f457d7432552d0e2b6f0f4046bb702f4 upstream. bitmap_parselist("", &mask, nmaskbits) will erroneously set bit zero in the mask. The same bug is visible in cpumask_parselist() since it is layered on top of the bitmask code, e.g. if you boot with "isolcpus=", you will actually end up with cpu zero isolated. The bug was introduced in commit 4b060420a596 ("bitmap, irq: add smp_affinity_list interface to /proc/irq") when bitmap_parselist() was generalized to support userspace as well as kernelspace. Fixes: 4b060420a596 ("bitmap, irq: add smp_affinity_list interface to /proc/irq") Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/bitmap.c | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/lib/bitmap.c +++ b/lib/bitmap.c @@ -603,12 +603,12 @@ static int __bitmap_parselist(const char unsigned a, b; int c, old_c, totaldigits; const char __user __force *ubuf = (const char __user __force *)buf; - int exp_digit, in_range; + int at_start, in_range; totaldigits = c = 0; bitmap_zero(maskp, nmaskbits); do { - exp_digit = 1; + at_start = 1; in_range = 0; a = b = 0; @@ -637,11 +637,10 @@ static int __bitmap_parselist(const char break; if (c == '-') { - if (exp_digit || in_range) + if (at_start || in_range) return -EINVAL; b = 0; in_range = 1; - exp_digit = 1; continue; } @@ -651,16 +650,18 @@ static int __bitmap_parselist(const char b = b * 10 + (c - '0'); if (!in_range) a = b; - exp_digit = 0; + at_start = 0; totaldigits++; } if (!(a <= b)) return -EINVAL; if (b >= nmaskbits) return -ERANGE; - while (a <= b) { - set_bit(a, maskp); - a++; + if (!at_start) { + while (a <= b) { + set_bit(a, maskp); + a++; + } } } while (buflen && c == ','); return 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/__bitmap_parselist-fix-bug-in-empty-string-handling.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