-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: David Miller The 32-bit syscall trampoline for sys_ipc() on sparc64 was sign extending various arguments, which is bogus when using compat_sys_ipc() since that function expects zero extended copies of all the arguments. This bug breaks the sparc64 kernel when built with gcc-4.2.x among other things. [SPARC64]: Fix arg passing to compat_sys_ipc(). Do not sign extend args using the sys32_ipc stub, that is buggy and unnecessary. Based upon an excellent report by Mikael Pettersson. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/sparc64/kernel/sys32.S | 1 - arch/sparc64/kernel/systbls.S | 2 +- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/sparc64/kernel/sys32.S +++ b/arch/sparc64/kernel/sys32.S @@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ SIGN1(sys32_select, compat_sys_select, % SIGN1(sys32_mkdir, sys_mkdir, %o1) SIGN3(sys32_futex, compat_sys_futex, %o1, %o2, %o5) SIGN1(sys32_sysfs, compat_sys_sysfs, %o0) -SIGN3(sys32_ipc, compat_sys_ipc, %o1, %o2, %o3) SIGN2(sys32_sendfile, compat_sys_sendfile, %o0, %o1) SIGN2(sys32_sendfile64, compat_sys_sendfile64, %o0, %o1) SIGN1(sys32_prctl, sys_prctl, %o0) --- a/arch/sparc64/kernel/systbls.S +++ b/arch/sparc64/kernel/systbls.S @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ sys_call_table32: /*200*/ .word sys32_ssetmask, sys_sigsuspend, compat_sys_newlstat, sys_uselib, compat_sys_old_readdir .word sys32_readahead, sys32_socketcall, sys32_syslog, sys32_lookup_dcookie, sys32_fadvise64 /*210*/ .word sys32_fadvise64_64, sys32_tgkill, sys32_waitpid, sys_swapoff, sys32_sysinfo - .word sys32_ipc, sys32_sigreturn, sys_clone, sys32_ioprio_get, compat_sys_adjtimex + .word compat_sys_ipc, sys32_sigreturn, sys_clone, sys32_ioprio_get, compat_sys_adjtimex /*220*/ .word sys32_sigprocmask, sys_ni_syscall, sys32_delete_module, sys_ni_syscall, sys32_getpgid .word sys32_bdflush, sys32_sysfs, sys_nis_syscall, sys32_setfsuid16, sys32_setfsgid16 /*230*/ .word sys32_select, compat_sys_time, sys32_splice, compat_sys_stime, compat_sys_statfs64 -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/