[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <20150619191409.GA12700@kroah.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:14:09 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>
Cc: stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>,
Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: KVM: do not sign extend on unsigned MMIO load
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 09:33:50AM +0100, James Hogan wrote:
> Hi stable folk,
>
> On 08/05/15 15:16, James Hogan wrote:
> > On 07/05/15 13:47, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> >> Fix possible unintended sign extension in unsigned MMIO loads by casting
> >> to uint16_t in the case of mmio_needed != 2.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
> >
> > Looks good to me. I wrote an MMIO test to reproduce the issue, and this
> > fixes it.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>
> > Tested-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>
> >
> > It looks suitable for stable too (3.10+).
>
> This has reached mainline, commit ed9244e6c534612d2b5ae47feab2f55a0d4b4ced
>
> Please could it be added to stable (3.10+).
It does not apply to 3.10 or 3.14-stable, so please provide a backport
if you want it there.
thanks,
greg k-h
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists