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sparc64: fix incorrect sign extension in sys_sparc64_personality
authorDmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Sat, 26 Dec 2015 23:13:27 +0000 (02:13 +0300)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Thu, 3 Mar 2016 11:46:03 +0000 (12:46 +0100)
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 <ldv@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c

index d188c591f2d62562236d665c164bec9696157b55..608f9390396ec78bad15d41468d3c32ac833711b 100644 (file)
@@ -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)