Re: PROBLEM: network data corruption (bisected to e5a4b0bb803b)

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Jul 27 2016 - 20:31:17 EST


On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 04:45:43PM -0700, David Miller wrote:

> > I highly expect both my issue and OP's issue to revolve not around
> > commit e5a4b0bb803b specifically, but around other code that no longer
> > behaves as expected because of it.
>
> Indeed, and that fault address rounding bug occurs two other times
> in arch/sparc/lib/user_fixup.c
>
> The mentioned patchwork patch should fix the bug and I'll get that
> into my sparc tree, merged, and queued up for -stable ASAP.

Plausible for sparc, but I don't see similar __copy_to_user_inatomic()
bugs in case of x86_64...