From 525fd5a94e1be0776fa652df5c687697db508c91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Dmitry V. Levin" Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 02:13:27 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] sparc64: fix incorrect sign extension in sys_sparc64_personality The value returned by sys_personality has type "long int". It is saved to a variable of type "int", which is not a problem yet because the type of task_struct->pesonality is "unsigned int". The problem is the sign extension from "int" to "long int" that happens on return from sys_sparc64_personality. For example, a userspace call personality((unsigned) -EINVAL) will result to any subsequent personality call, including absolutely harmless read-only personality(0xffffffff) call, failing with errno set to EINVAL. Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin Cc: Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c index 30e7ddb27a3a..c690c8e16a96 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c @@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ out: SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sparc64_personality, unsigned long, personality) { - int ret; + long ret; if (personality(current->personality) == PER_LINUX32 && personality(personality) == PER_LINUX)