Patch "ARC: uaccess: get_user to zero out dest in cause of fault" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

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

ARC: uaccess: get_user to zero out dest in cause of fault

to the 4.7-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:
arc-uaccess-get_user-to-zero-out-dest-in-cause-of-fault.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.

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

From: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:10:02 -0700
Subject: ARC: uaccess: get_user to zero out dest in cause of fault

From: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>

commit 05d9d0b96e53c52a113fd783c0c97c830c8dc7af upstream.

Al reported potential issue with ARC get_user() as it wasn't clearing out destination pointer in case of fault due to bad address etc.

Verified using following

| {
|  	u32 bogus1 = 0xdeadbeef;
|	u64 bogus2 = 0xdead;
|	int rc1, rc2;
|
|  	pr_info("Orig values %x %llx\n", bogus1, bogus2);
|	rc1 = get_user(bogus1, (u32 __user *)0x40000000);
|	rc2 = get_user(bogus2, (u64 __user *)0x50000000);
|	pr_info("access %d %d, new values %x %llx\n",
|		rc1, rc2, bogus1, bogus2);
| }

| [ARCLinux]# insmod /mnt/kernel-module/qtn.ko
| Orig values deadbeef dead
| access -14 -14, new values 0 0

---
 arch/arc/include/asm/uaccess.h |   11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -83,7 +83,10 @@
 	"2:	;nop\n"				\
 	"	.section .fixup, \"ax\"\n"	\
 	"	.align 4\n"			\
-	"3:	mov %0, %3\n"			\
+	"3:	# return -EFAULT\n"		\
+	"	mov %0, %3\n"			\
+	"	# zero out dst ptr\n"		\
+	"	mov %1,  0\n"			\
 	"	j   2b\n"			\
 	"	.previous\n"			\
 	"	.section __ex_table, \"a\"\n"	\

@@ -101,7 +104,11 @@
 	"2:	;nop\n"				\
 	"	.section .fixup, \"ax\"\n"	\
 	"	.align 4\n"			\
-	"3:	mov %0, %3\n"			\
+	"3:	# return -EFAULT\n"		\
+	"	mov %0, %3\n"			\
+	"	# zero out dst ptr\n"		\
+	"	mov %1,  0\n"			\
+	"	mov %R1, 0\n"			\
 	"	j   2b\n"			\
 	"	.previous\n"			\
 	"	.section __ex_table, \"a\"\n"	\

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

queue-4.7/arc-uaccess-get_user-to-zero-out-dest-in-cause-of-fault.patch