Patch "MIPS: KVM: Do not sign extend on unsigned MMIO load" has been added to the 4.0-stable tree

Patch "MIPS: KVM: Do not sign extend on unsigned MMIO load" has been added to the 4.0-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    MIPS: KVM: Do not sign extend on unsigned MMIO load

to the 4.0-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     mips-kvm-do-not-sign-extend-on-unsigned-mmio-load.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From ed9244e6c534612d2b5ae47feab2f55a0d4b4ced Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 14:47:50 +0200
Subject: MIPS: KVM: Do not sign extend on unsigned MMIO load

From: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>

commit ed9244e6c534612d2b5ae47feab2f55a0d4b4ced upstream.

Fix possible unintended sign extension in unsigned MMIO loads by casting
to uint16_t in the case of mmio_needed != 2.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Tested-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9985/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/mips/kvm/emulate.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/mips/kvm/emulate.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kvm/emulate.c
@@ -2101,7 +2101,7 @@ enum emulation_result kvm_mips_complete_
 		if (vcpu->mmio_needed == 2)
 			*gpr = *(int16_t *) run->mmio.data;
 		else
-			*gpr = *(int16_t *) run->mmio.data;
+			*gpr = *(uint16_t *)run->mmio.data;
 
 		break;
 	case 1:


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hofrat@osadl.org are

queue-4.0/mips-kvm-do-not-sign-extend-on-unsigned-mmio-load.patch
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