[PATCH 4.14 07/54] MIPS: Drop spurious __unused in struct compat_flock

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Feb 26 2018 - 15:24:54 EST


4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: James Hogan <jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 6ae1756faddefd7494353380ee546dd38c2f97eb upstream.

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@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Peter Mamonov <pmamonov@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.13+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/18646/
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/mips/include/asm/compat.h | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/compat.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/compat.h
@@ -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];
};