From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
akpm@osdl.org, corryk@us.ibm.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
anton@samba.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix compat shmget overflow
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 13:54:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050209125442.GB27875@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF57C10E69.8B803A13-ON41256FA3.00360882-41256FA3.0037BF5D@de.ibm.com>
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:08:54AM +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > This fixes an incorrect sign extension in the compat layer that
> > breaks 32bit shmget that are >2GB. sys_shmget has a signed size_t size
> > argument, and the int size argument comming from 32bit user space would
> get
> > sign extended to 64bit, which is wrong.
>
> Ok for s390 though not needed. The address space for a 31 bit programs
> is limited to 2GB anyway.
Same on MIPS.
Ralf
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-09 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-09 9:44 [PATCH] Fix compat shmget overflow Andi Kleen
2005-02-09 10:08 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2005-02-09 10:31 ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-09 12:20 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2005-02-09 12:54 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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