From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro Subject: [PATCH 4.4 113/118] nios2: copy_from_user() should zero the tail of destination Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 19:30:13 +0200 Message-Id: <20160922172944.448549955@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20160922172938.643879685@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20160922172938.643879685@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Al Viro commit e33d1f6f72cc82fcfc3d1fb20c9e3ad83b1928fa upstream. Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/nios2/include/asm/uaccess.h | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/arch/nios2/include/asm/uaccess.h +++ b/arch/nios2/include/asm/uaccess.h @@ -102,9 +102,12 @@ extern long __copy_to_user(void __user * static inline long copy_from_user(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n) { - if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, from, n)) - return n; - return __copy_from_user(to, from, n); + unsigned long res = n; + if (access_ok(VERIFY_READ, from, n)) + res = __copy_from_user(to, from, n); + if (unlikely(res)) + memset(to + (n - res), 0, res); + return res; } static inline long copy_to_user(void __user *to, const void *from,