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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Peter Mamonov <pmamonov@gmail.com>,
	James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 07/54] MIPS: Drop spurious __unused in struct compat_flock
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 21:21:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180226202144.720516819@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180226202144.375869933@linuxfoundation.org>

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

------------------

From: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>

commit 6ae1756faddefd7494353380ee546dd38c2f97eb upstream.

MIPS' struct compat_flock doesn't match the 32-bit struct flock, as it
has an extra short __unused before pad[4], which combined with alignment
increases the size to 40 bytes compared with struct flock's 36 bytes.

Since commit 8c6657cb50cb ("Switch flock copyin/copyout primitives to
copy_{from,to}_user()"), put_compat_flock() writes the full compat_flock
struct to userland, which results in corruption of the userland word
after the struct flock when running 32-bit userlands on 64-bit kernels.

This was observed to cause a bus error exception when starting Firefox
on Debian 8 (Jessie).

Reported-by: Peter Mamonov <pmamonov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Peter Mamonov <pmamonov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.13+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/18646/
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/mips/include/asm/compat.h |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/compat.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/compat.h
@@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ struct compat_flock {
 	compat_off_t	l_len;
 	s32		l_sysid;
 	compat_pid_t	l_pid;
-	short		__unused;
 	s32		pad[4];
 };
 

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