Patch "x86/mpx: Use compatible types in comparison to fix sparse error" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "x86/mpx: Use compatible types in comparison to fix sparse error" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    x86/mpx: Use compatible types in comparison to fix sparse error

to the 4.9-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:
     x86-mpx-use-compatible-types-in-comparison-to-fix-sparse-error.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 foo@baz Mon Jul  3 13:33:55 CEST 2017
From: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:53:11 +0100
Subject: x86/mpx: Use compatible types in comparison to fix sparse error

From: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>


[ Upstream commit 453828625731d0ba7218242ef6ec88f59408f368 ]

info->si_addr is of type void __user *, so it should be compared against
something from the same address space.

This fixes the following sparse error:

  arch/x86/mm/mpx.c:296:27: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/mm/mpx.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/mm/mpx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/mpx.c
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ siginfo_t *mpx_generate_siginfo(struct p
 	 * We were not able to extract an address from the instruction,
 	 * probably because there was something invalid in it.
 	 */
-	if (info->si_addr == (void *)-1) {
+	if (info->si_addr == (void __user *)-1) {
 		err = -EINVAL;
 		goto err_out;
 	}


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tklauser@distanz.ch are

queue-4.9/x86-mpx-use-compatible-types-in-comparison-to-fix-sparse-error.patch