This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ipc: set msg back to -EAGAIN if copy wasn't performed

to the 3.8-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:
     ipc-set-msg-back-to-eagain-if-copy-wasn-t-performed.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 2dc958fa2fe6987e7ab106bd97029a09a82fcd8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stanislav Kinsbursky <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 11:40:51 +0400
Subject: ipc: set msg back to -EAGAIN if copy wasn't performed

From: Stanislav Kinsbursky <[email protected]>

commit 2dc958fa2fe6987e7ab106bd97029a09a82fcd8d upstream.

Make sure that msg pointer is set back to error value in case of
MSG_COPY flag is set and desired message to copy wasn't found.  This
garantees that msg is either a error pointer or a copy address.

Otherwise the last message in queue will be freed without unlinking from
the queue (which leads to memory corruption) and the dummy allocated
copy won't be released.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 ipc/msg.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/ipc/msg.c
+++ b/ipc/msg.c
@@ -872,6 +872,7 @@ long do_msgrcv(int msqid, void __user *b
                                                        goto out_unlock;
                                                break;
                                        }
+                                       msg = ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
                                } else
                                        break;
                                msg_counter++;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] 
are

queue-3.8/ipc-set-msg-back-to-eagain-if-copy-wasn-t-performed.patch
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