Patch "fix minor infoleak in get_user_ex()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

fix minor infoleak in get_user_ex()

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
fix-minor-infoleak-in-get_user_ex.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 02:35:29 +0100
Subject: fix minor infoleak in get_user_ex()

From: Al Viro <[email protected]>

commit 1c109fabbd51863475cd12ac206bdd249aee35af upstream.

get_user_ex(x, ptr) should zero x on failure. It's not a lot of a leak (at most we are leaking uninitialized 64bit value off the kernel stack, and in a fairly constrained situation, at that), but the fix is trivial, so...

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -394,7 +394,11 @@ do {									\
 #define __get_user_asm_ex(x, addr, itype, rtype, ltype)			\
 	asm volatile("1:	mov"itype" %1,%"rtype"0\n"		\
 		     "2:\n"						\
-		     _ASM_EXTABLE_EX(1b, 2b)				\
+		     ".section .fixup,\"ax\"\n"				\
+                     "3:xor"itype" %"rtype"0,%"rtype"0\n"		\
+		     "  jmp 2b\n"					\
+		     ".previous\n"					\
+		     _ASM_EXTABLE_EX(1b, 3b)				\
 		     : ltype(x) : "m" (__m(addr)))
 
 #define __put_user_nocheck(x, ptr, size)			\

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/arc-uaccess-get_user-to-zero-out-dest-in-cause-of-fault.patch queue-4.4/fix-minor-infoleak-in-get_user_ex.patch queue-4.4/fix-iov_iter_fault_in_readable.patch