Re: [PATCH] powerpc/security: Fix debugfs data leak on 32-bit

[Michael Ellerman]

On Mon, 2019-10-21 at 14:23:09 UTC, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> "powerpc_security_features" is "unsigned long", i.e. 32-bit or 64-bit,
> depending on the platform (PPC_FSL_BOOK3E or PPC_BOOK3S_64).  Hence
> casting its address to "u64 *", and calling debugfs_create_x64() is
> wrong, and leaks 32-bit of nearby data to userspace on 32-bit platforms.
> 
> While all currently defined SEC_FTR_* security feature flags fit in
> 32-bit, they all have "ULL" suffixes to make them 64-bit constants.
> Hence fix the leak by changing the type of "powerpc_security_features"
> (and the parameter types of its accessors) to "u64".  This also allows
> to drop the cast.
> 
> Fixes: 398af571128fe75f ("powerpc/security: Show powerpc_security_features in debugfs")
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/3b05a1e517e1a8cfda4866ec31d28b2bc4fee4c4

cheers