linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] um: Fix pointer cast

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Message-ID: <567AEA7E.2090207@nod.at>
Date:	Wed, 23 Dec 2015 19:39:58 +0100
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:	Mickaël Salaün <mic@...ikod.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] um: Fix pointer cast

Am 23.12.2015 um 14:17 schrieb Mickaël Salaün:
> Fix a pointer cast typo introduced in v4.4-rc5 especially visible for
> the i386 subarchitecture where it results in a kernel crash.
> 
> Fixes: 8090bfd2bb9a ("um: Fix fpstate handling")
> Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@...ikod.net>
> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
> ---
>  arch/x86/um/signal.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/um/signal.c b/arch/x86/um/signal.c
> index e5f854ce2d72..14fcd01ed992 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/um/signal.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/um/signal.c
> @@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ long sys_sigreturn(void)
>  	struct sigcontext __user *sc = &frame->sc;
>  	int sig_size = (_NSIG_WORDS - 1) * sizeof(unsigned long);
>  
> -	if (copy_from_user(&set.sig[0], (void *)sc->oldmask, sizeof(set.sig[0])) ||
> +	if (copy_from_user(&set.sig[0], &sc->oldmask, sizeof(set.sig[0])) ||
>  	    copy_from_user(&set.sig[1], frame->extramask, sig_size))
>  		goto segfault;

FYI Linus already merged your patch. :-)
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=de3793796f78e293cc0873744a75588c99ed2fdd

Thanks,
//richard
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