[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 076/136] sparc64: fix incorrect sign extension in sys_sparc64_personality

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Tue Feb 02 2016 - 13:18:07 EST


3.13.11-ckt34 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 25db14a..47ae8d7 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ out:

SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sparc64_personality, unsigned long, personality)
{
- int ret;
+ long ret;

if (personality(current->personality) == PER_LINUX32 &&
personality(personality) == PER_LINUX)
--
1.9.1