MIPS: Drop spurious __unused in struct compat_flock
authorJames Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:44:37 +0000 (15:44 +0000)
committerJames Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:46:44 +0000 (15:46 +0000)
MIPS' struct compat_flock doesn't match the 32-bit struct flock, as it
has an extra short __unused before pad[4], which combined with alignment
increases the size to 40 bytes compared with struct flock's 36 bytes.

Since commit 8c6657cb50cb ("Switch flock copyin/copyout primitives to
copy_{from,to}_user()"), put_compat_flock() writes the full compat_flock
struct to userland, which results in corruption of the userland word
after the struct flock when running 32-bit userlands on 64-bit kernels.

This was observed to cause a bus error exception when starting Firefox
on Debian 8 (Jessie).

Reported-by: Peter Mamonov <pmamonov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Peter Mamonov <pmamonov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.13+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/18646/

arch/mips/include/asm/compat.h

index 946681db8dc3a680e319617e43e209ba50b51e98..9a0fa66b81aca6c47dab0189cbba57b7c413a952 100644 (file)
@@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ struct compat_flock {
        compat_off_t    l_len;
        s32             l_sysid;
        compat_pid_t    l_pid;
-       short           __unused;
        s32             pad[4];
 };