From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-Id: <20120527010423.935380372@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 10:04:24 +0900 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Chris Metcalf Subject: [ 01/94] tilegx: enable SYSCALL_WRAPPERS support In-Reply-To: <20120527010332.GA11170@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.3-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Chris Metcalf commit e6d9668e119af44ae5bcd5f1197174531458afe3 upstream. Some discussion with the glibc mailing lists revealed that this was necessary for 64-bit platforms with MIPS-like sign-extension rules for 32-bit values. The original symptom was that passing (uid_t)-1 to setreuid() was failing in programs linked -pthread because of the "setxid" mechanism for passing setxid-type function arguments to the syscall code. SYSCALL_WRAPPERS handles ensuring that all syscall arguments end up with proper sign-extension and is thus the appropriate fix for this problem. On other platforms (s390, powerpc, sparc64, and mips) this was fixed in 2.6.28.6. The general issue is tracked as CVE-2009-0029. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/tile/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/arch/tile/Kconfig +++ b/arch/tile/Kconfig @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ config TILE select GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE select GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ if SMP select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW + select HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS if TILEGX select SYS_HYPERVISOR select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG if !M386