linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.15 07/64] MIPS: Drop spurious __unused in struct compat

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Date:   Mon, 26 Feb 2018 21:21:44 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Peter Mamonov <pmamonov@...il.com>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org
Subject: [PATCH 4.15 07/64] MIPS: Drop spurious __unused in struct compat_flock

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

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From: James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>

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@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>
Tested-by: Peter Mamonov <pmamonov@...il.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-mips@...ux-mips.org
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 4.13+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/18646/
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 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];
 };