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Commit 464d62421cb8 ("select: switch compat_{get,put}_fd_set() to
compat_{get,put}_bitmap()") changed the calculation on how many bytes
need to be zeroed when userspace handed over a NULL pointer for a fdset
array in the select syscall.
The calculation was changed in compat_get_fd_set() wrongly from
memset(fdset, 0, ((nr + 1) & ~1)*sizeof(compat_ulong_t));
to
memset(fdset, 0, ALIGN(nr, BITS_PER_LONG));
The ALIGN(nr, BITS_PER_LONG) calculates the number of _bits_ which need
to be zeroed in the target fdset array (rounded up to the next full bits
for an unsigned long).
But the memset() call expects the number of _bytes_ to be zeroed.
This leads to clearing more memory than wanted (on the stack area or
even at kmalloc()ed memory areas) and to random kernel crashes as we
have seen them on the parisc platform.
The correct change should have been
memset(fdset, 0, (ALIGN(nr, BITS_PER_LONG) / BITS_PER_LONG) * BYTES_PER_LONG);
which is the same as can be archieved with a call to
zero_fd_set(nr, fdset).
Fixes: 464d62421cb8 ("select: switch compat_{get,put}_fd_set() to compat_{get,put}_bitmap()"
Acked-by:: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull c6x tweaks from Mark Salter.
* tag 'for-linus' of git://linux-c6x.org/git/projects/linux-c6x-upstreaming:
c6x: Convert to using %pOF instead of full_name
c6x: defconfig: Cleanup from old Kconfig options
Now that we have a custom printf format specifier, convert users of
full_name to use %pOF instead. This is preparation to remove storing
of the full path string for each node.
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com>
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Pull IOMMU fix from Joerg Roedel:
"Another fix, this time in common IOMMU sysfs code.
In the conversion from the old iommu sysfs-code to the
iommu_device_register interface, I missed to update the release path
for the struct device associated with an IOMMU. It freed the 'struct
device', which was a pointer before, but is now embedded in another
struct.
Freeing from the middle of allocated memory had all kinds of nasty
side effects when an IOMMU was unplugged. Unfortunatly nobody
unplugged and IOMMU until now, so this was not discovered earlier. The
fix is to make the 'struct device' a pointer again"
* tag 'iommu-fixes-v4.13-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu:
iommu: Fix wrong freeing of iommu_device->dev
Remove old, dead Kconfig options (in order appearing in this commit):
- EXPERIMENTAL is gone since v3.9;
- MISC_DEVICES: commit 7c5763b8453a ("drivers: misc: Remove
MISC_DEVICES config option");
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Pull char/misc fix from Greg KH:
"Here is a single misc driver fix for 4.13-rc7. It resolves a reported
problem in the Android binder driver due to previous patches in
4.13-rc.
It's been in linux-next with no reported issues"
* tag 'char-misc-4.13-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc:
ANDROID: binder: fix proc->tsk check.
The struct iommu_device has a 'struct device' embedded into
it, not as a pointer, but the whole struct. In the
conversion of the iommu drivers to use struct iommu_device
it was forgotten that the relase function for that struct
device simply calls kfree() on the pointer.
This frees memory that was never allocated and causes memory
corruption.
To fix this issue, use a pointer to struct device instead of
embedding the whole struct. This needs some updates in the
iommu sysfs code as well as the Intel VT-d and AMD IOMMU
driver.
Reported-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fixes: 39ab9555c241 ('iommu: Add sysfs bindings for struct iommu_device')
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # >= v4.11
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Pull staging/iio fixes from Greg KH:
"Here are few small staging driver fixes, and some more IIO driver
fixes for 4.13-rc7. Nothing major, just resolutions for some reported
problems.
All of these have been in linux-next with no reported problems"
* tag 'staging-4.13-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging:
iio: magnetometer: st_magn: remove ihl property for LSM303AGR
iio: magnetometer: st_magn: fix status register address for LSM303AGR
iio: hid-sensor-trigger: Fix the race with user space powering up sensors
iio: trigger: stm32-timer: fix get trigger mode
iio: imu: adis16480: Fix acceleration scale factor for adis16480
PATCH] iio: Fix some documentation warnings
staging: rtl8188eu: add RNX-N150NUB support
Revert "staging: fsl-mc: be consistent when checking strcmp() return"
iio: adc: stm32: fix common clock rate
iio: adc: ina219: Avoid underflow for sleeping time
iio: trigger: stm32-timer: add enable attribute
iio: trigger: stm32-timer: fix get/set down count direction
iio: trigger: stm32-timer: fix write_raw return value
iio: trigger: stm32-timer: fix quadrature mode get routine
iio: bmp280: properly initialize device for humidity reading
Commit c4ea41ba195d ("binder: use group leader instead of open thread")'
was incomplete and didn't update a check in binder_mmap(), causing all
mmap() calls into the binder driver to fail.
Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Tested-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Commit c54451a "iommu/arm-smmu: Fix the error path in arm_smmu_add_device"
removed fwspec assignment in legacy_binding path as redundant which is
wrong. It needs to be updated after fwspec initialisation in
arm_smmu_register_legacy_master() as it is dereferenced later. Without
this there is a NULL-pointer dereference panic during boot on some hosts.
Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov <asavkov@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
The 'move_paghes()' system call was introduced long long ago with the
same permission checks as for sending a signal (except using
CAP_SYS_NICE instead of CAP_SYS_KILL for the overriding capability).
That turns out to not be a great choice - while the system call really
only moves physical page allocations around (and you need other
capabilities to do a lot of it), you can check the return value to map
out some the virtual address choices and defeat ASLR of a binary that
still shares your uid.
So change the access checks to the more common 'ptrace_may_access()'
model instead.
This tightens the access checks for the uid, and also effectively
changes the CAP_SYS_NICE check to CAP_SYS_PTRACE, but it's unlikely that
anybody really _uses_ this legacy system call any more (we hav ebetter
NUMA placement models these days), so I expect nobody to notice.
Famous last words.
Reported-by: Otto Ebeling <otto.ebeling@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>