1. 20 Nov, 2016 1 commit
    • Nicolai Stange's avatar
      lib/mpi: mpi_read_raw_data(): fix nbits calculation · b15ff947
      Nicolai Stange authored
      commit eef0df6a upstream.
      
      The number of bits, nbits, is calculated in mpi_read_raw_data() as follows:
      
        nbits = nbytes * 8;
      
      Afterwards, the number of leading zero bits of the first byte get
      subtracted:
      
        nbits -= count_leading_zeros(buffer[0]);
      
      However, count_leading_zeros() takes an unsigned long and thus,
      the u8 gets promoted to an unsigned long.
      
      Thus, the above doesn't subtract the number of leading zeros in the most
      significant nonzero input byte from nbits, but the number of leading
      zeros of the most significant nonzero input byte promoted to unsigned long,
      i.e. BITS_PER_LONG - 8 too many.
      
      Fix this by subtracting
      
        count_leading_zeros(...) - (BITS_PER_LONG - 8)
      
      from nbits only.
      
      Fixes: e1045992 ("MPILIB: Provide a function to read raw data into an
                           MPI")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
      [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
      b15ff947
  2. 20 Oct, 2016 2 commits
    • Ben Hutchings's avatar
      Linux 3.16.38 · fa1703ff
      Ben Hutchings authored
      fa1703ff
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      mm: remove gup_flags FOLL_WRITE games from __get_user_pages() · 2649c26f
      Linus Torvalds authored
      commit 19be0eaf upstream.
      
      This is an ancient bug that was actually attempted to be fixed once
      (badly) by me eleven years ago in commit 4ceb5db9 ("Fix
      get_user_pages() race for write access") but that was then undone due to
      problems on s390 by commit f33ea7f4 ("fix get_user_pages bug").
      
      In the meantime, the s390 situation has long been fixed, and we can now
      fix it by checking the pte_dirty() bit properly (and do it better).  The
      s390 dirty bit was implemented in abf09bed ("s390/mm: implement
      software dirty bits") which made it into v3.9.  Earlier kernels will
      have to look at the page state itself.
      
      Also, the VM has become more scalable, and what used a purely
      theoretical race back then has become easier to trigger.
      
      To fix it, we introduce a new internal FOLL_COW flag to mark the "yes,
      we already did a COW" rather than play racy games with FOLL_WRITE that
      is very fundamental, and then use the pte dirty flag to validate that
      the FOLL_COW flag is still valid.
      Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarPhil "not Paul" Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
      Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
      Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      [carnil: backport to 3.16, adjust context]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
      2649c26f
  3. 22 Aug, 2016 37 commits