From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <l...@altlinux.org>
3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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commit 525fd5a94e1be0776fa652df5c687697db508c91 upstream.
The value returned by sys_personality has type "long int".
It is saved to a variable of type "int", which is not a problem
yet because the type of task_struct->pesonality is "unsigned int".
The problem is the sign extension from "int" to "long int"
that happens on return from sys_sparc64_personality.
For example, a userspace call personality((unsigned) -EINVAL) will
result to any subsequent personality call, including absolutely
harmless read-only personality(0xffffffff) call, failing with
errno set to EINVAL.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <l...@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jsl...@suse.cz>
---
arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c
index d188c591f2d6..608f9390396e 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ out:
SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sparc64_personality, unsigned long, personality)
{
- int ret;
+ long ret;
if (personality(current->personality) == PER_LINUX32 &&
personality(personality) == PER_LINUX)
--
2.7.2
