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Patch "arm64/ptrace: Avoid uninitialised struct padding in fpr_set()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

arm64/ptrace: Avoid uninitialised struct padding in fpr_set()

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:
arm64-ptrace-avoid-uninitialised-struct-padding-in-fpr_set.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.

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From aeb1f39d814b2e21e5e5706a48834bfd553d0059 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Dave Martin <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 16:25:23 +0000
Subject: arm64/ptrace: Avoid uninitialised struct padding in fpr_set()

From: Dave Martin <[email protected]>

commit aeb1f39d814b2e21e5e5706a48834bfd553d0059 upstream.

This patch adds an explicit __reserved[] field to user_fpsimd_state to replace what was previously unnamed padding.

This ensures that data in this region are propagated across assignment rather than being left possibly uninitialised at the destination.

Fixes 60ffc30d5652 ("arm64: Exception handling")
---
 arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h +1 -0
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ struct user_fpsimd_state {
 	__uint128_t	vregs[32];
 	__u32		fpsr;
 	__u32		fpcr;
+	__u32		__reserved[2];
 };
 
 struct user_hwdebug_state {

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

queue-4.4/arm64-ptrace-preserve-previous-registers-for-short-regset-write-3.patch queue-4.4/arm64-ptrace-reject-attempts-to-set-incomplete-hardware-breakpoint-fields.patch queue-4.4/arm64-ptrace-preserve-previous-registers-for-short-regset-write-2.patch queue-4.4/arm64-ptrace-avoid-uninitialised-struct-padding-in-fpr_set.patch queue-4.4/arm64-ptrace-preserve-previous-registers-for-short-regset-write.patch