linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 099/190] arm64: futex: Fix undefined behaviour with FUTEX_OP_OPARG

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Date:   Wed, 16 May 2018 00:15:36 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 099/190] arm64: futex: Fix undefined behaviour with
 FUTEX_OP_OPARG_SHIFT usage

On Wed, 2018-04-11 at 20:35 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> > From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> 
> 
> [ Upstream commit 5f16a046f8e144c294ef98cd29d9458b5f8273e5 ]
> 
> FUTEX_OP_OPARG_SHIFT instructs the futex code to treat the 12-bit oparg
> field as a shift value, potentially leading to a left shift value that
> is negative or with an absolute value that is significantly larger then
> the size of the type. UBSAN chokes with:
[...]
> Whilst I think this catches all of the issues, I'd much prefer to remove
> this stuff, as I think it's unused and the bugs are copy-pasted between
> a bunch of architectures.
[...]

Indeed.  That more complete fix was done upstream by:

commit 30d6e0a4190d37740e9447e4e4815f06992dd8c3
Author: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Date:   Thu Aug 24 09:31:05 2017 +0200

    futex: Remove duplicated code and fix undefined behaviour

It's a bit big for stable - though most of the changes are deletions. 
What do you think?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.