linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] auxvec.h: account for AT_HWCAP2 in AT_VECTOR_SIZE

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Date:	Mon, 23 Dec 2013 17:37:00 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
	Michael Neuling <michael@...ling.org>,
	Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] auxvec.h: account for AT_HWCAP2 in AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE

Please cc the guilty parties when sending patches like this.

Also, just out of interest, please describe how this bug affected
things. Did we overflow the saved_auxv[] array, or what? Also, how
does this change affect architectures that _don't_ have that
ELF_HWCAP2 thing, ie everything but powerpc?

Acks, people?

           Linus

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Ard Biesheuvel
<ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org> wrote:
> Commit 2171364d1a92 (powerpc: Add HWCAP2 aux entry) introduced a new
> AT_ auxv entry type AT_HWCAP2 but failed to update AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE
> accordingly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
> Fixes: 2171364d1a92 (powerpc: Add HWCAP2 aux entry)
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>
>  include/linux/auxvec.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/auxvec.h b/include/linux/auxvec.h
> index 669fef5..3e0fbe4 100644
> --- a/include/linux/auxvec.h
> +++ b/include/linux/auxvec.h
> @@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
>
>  #include <uapi/linux/auxvec.h>
>
> -#define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE 19 /* NEW_AUX_ENT entries in auxiliary table */
> +#define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE 20 /* NEW_AUX_ENT entries in auxiliary table */
>    /* number of "#define AT_.*" above, minus {AT_NULL, AT_IGNORE, AT_NOTELF} */
>  #endif /* _LINUX_AUXVEC_H */
> --
> 1.8.3.2
>
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