From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:43442 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751005AbeACSEK (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2018 13:04:10 -0500 Subject: Patch "kaiser: fix unlikely error in alloc_ldt_struct()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree To: hughd@google.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, jkosina@suse.cz Cc: , From: Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 19:03:41 +0100 Message-ID: <1515002621225209@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kaiser: fix unlikely error in alloc_ldt_struct() to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: kaiser-fix-unlikely-error-in-alloc_ldt_struct.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From foo@baz Wed Jan 3 18:58:12 CET 2018 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 20:13:35 -0800 Subject: kaiser: fix unlikely error in alloc_ldt_struct() From: Hugh Dickins An error from kaiser_add_mapping() here is not at all likely, but Eric Biggers rightly points out that __free_ldt_struct() relies on new_ldt->size being initialized: move that up. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Jiri Kosina Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c @@ -79,11 +79,11 @@ static struct ldt_struct *alloc_ldt_stru ret = kaiser_add_mapping((unsigned long)new_ldt->entries, alloc_size, __PAGE_KERNEL); + new_ldt->size = size; if (ret) { __free_ldt_struct(new_ldt); return NULL; } - new_ldt->size = size; return new_ldt; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hughd@google.com are queue-4.4/kaiser-vmstat-show-nr_kaisertable-as-nr_overhead.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-add-nokaiser-boot-option-using-alternative.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-fix-unlikely-error-in-alloc_ldt_struct.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-_pgd_alloc-without-__gfp_repeat-to-avoid-stalls.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-kaiser_flush_tlb_on_return_to_user-check-pcid.patch queue-4.4/x86-paravirt-dont-patch-flush_tlb_single.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-merged-update.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-delete-kaiser_real_switch-option.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-kaiser_remove_mapping-move-along-the-pgd.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-fix-perf-crashes.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-drop-is_atomic-arg-to-kaiser_pagetable_walk.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-load_new_mm_cr3-let-switch_user_cr3-flush-user.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-enhanced-by-kernel-and-user-pcids.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-x86_cr3_pcid_noflush-and-x86_cr3_pcid_user.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-use-alternative-instead-of-x86_cr3_pcid_noflush.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-stack-map-page_size-at-thread_size-page_size.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-name-that-0x1000-kaiser_shadow_pgd_offset.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-fix-regs-to-do_nmi-ifndef-config_kaiser.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-do-not-set-_page_nx-on-pgd_none.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-tidied-up-asm-kaiser.h-somewhat.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-cleanups-while-trying-for-gold-link.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-tidied-up-kaiser_add-remove_mapping-slightly.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-fix-build-and-fixme-in-alloc_ldt_struct.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-kernel-address-isolation.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-enomem-if-kaiser_pagetable_walk-null.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-asm-tlbflush.h-handle-nopge-at-lower-level.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-paranoid_entry-pass-cr3-need-to-paranoid_exit.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-kaiser-depends-on-smp.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-pcid-0-for-kernel-and-128-for-user.patch