From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:38490 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751590AbdITJUF (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2017 05:20:05 -0400 Subject: Patch ": Fix copy_in_user() declaration" has been added to the 4.13-stable tree To: bart.vanassche@wdc.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Cc: , From: Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:20:07 +0200 Message-ID: <1505899207166189@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled : Fix copy_in_user() declaration to the 4.13-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: linux-uaccess.h-fix-copy_in_user-declaration.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.13 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From f58e76c1c551c7577b25a6fe493d82f5214331b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bart Van Assche Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 15:29:10 -0700 Subject: : Fix copy_in_user() declaration From: Bart Van Assche commit f58e76c1c551c7577b25a6fe493d82f5214331b7 upstream. copy_in_user() copies data from user-space address @from to user- space address @to. Hence declare both @from and @to as user-space pointers. Fixes: commit d597580d3737 ("generic ...copy_..._user primitives") Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/uaccess.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/include/linux/uaccess.h +++ b/include/linux/uaccess.h @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ copy_to_user(void __user *to, const void } #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT static __always_inline unsigned long __must_check -copy_in_user(void __user *to, const void *from, unsigned long n) +copy_in_user(void __user *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n) { might_fault(); if (access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, to, n) && access_ok(VERIFY_READ, from, n)) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bart.vanassche@wdc.com are queue-4.13/linux-uaccess.h-fix-copy_in_user-declaration.patch