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<title>Linux 3.19.7</title>
<updated>2015-05-06T20:02:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-06T20:02:18+00:00</published>
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<title>netfilter: bridge: really save frag_max_size between PRE and POST_ROUTING</title>
<updated>2015-05-06T20:02:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-01T20:36:27+00:00</published>
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commit 0b67c43ce36a9964f1d5e3f973ee19eefd3f9f8f upstream.

We also need to save/store in forward, else br_parse_ip_options call
will zero frag_max_size as well.

Fixes: 93fdd47e5 ('bridge: Save frag_max_size between PRE_ROUTING and POST_ROUTING')
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0b67c43ce36a9964f1d5e3f973ee19eefd3f9f8f upstream.

We also need to save/store in forward, else br_parse_ip_options call
will zero frag_max_size as well.

Fixes: 93fdd47e5 ('bridge: Save frag_max_size between PRE_ROUTING and POST_ROUTING')
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>driver core: bus: Goto appropriate labels on failure in bus_add_device</title>
<updated>2015-05-06T20:02:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junjie Mao</name>
<email>junjie_mao@yeah.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-28T02:02:44+00:00</published>
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commit 1c34203a1496d1849ba978021b878b3447d433c8 upstream.

It is not necessary to call device_remove_groups() when device_add_groups()
fails.

The group added by device_add_groups() should be removed if sysfs_create_link()
fails.

Fixes: fa6fdb33b486 ("driver core: bus_type: add dev_groups")
Signed-off-by: Junjie Mao &lt;junjie_mao@yeah.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 1c34203a1496d1849ba978021b878b3447d433c8 upstream.

It is not necessary to call device_remove_groups() when device_add_groups()
fails.

The group added by device_add_groups() should be removed if sysfs_create_link()
fails.

Fixes: fa6fdb33b486 ("driver core: bus_type: add dev_groups")
Signed-off-by: Junjie Mao &lt;junjie_mao@yeah.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>drivers: platform: parse IRQ flags from resources</title>
<updated>2015-05-06T20:02:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Walleij</name>
<email>linus.walleij@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-18T16:12:18+00:00</published>
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commit 7085a7401ba54e92bbb5aa24d6f428071e18e509 upstream.

This fixes a regression from the net subsystem:
After commit d52fdbb735c36a209f36a628d40ca9185b349ba7
"smc91x: retrieve IRQ and trigger flags in a modern way"
a regression would appear on some legacy platforms such
as the ARM PXA Zylonite that specify IRQ resources like
this:

static struct resource r = {
       .start  = X,
       .end    = X,
       .flags  = IORESOURCE_IRQ | IORESOURCE_IRQ_HIGHEDGE,
};

The previous code would retrieve the resource and parse
the high edge setting in the SMC91x driver, a use pattern
that means every driver specifying an IRQ flag from a
static resource need to parse resource flags and apply
them at runtime.

As we switched the code to use IRQ descriptors to retrieve
the the trigger type like this:

  irqd_get_trigger_type(irq_get_irq_data(...));

the code would work for new platforms using e.g. device
tree as the backing irq descriptor would have its flags
properly set, whereas this kind of oldstyle static
resources at no point assign the trigger flags to the
corresponding IRQ descriptor.

To make the behaviour identical on modern device tree
and legacy static platform data platforms, modify
platform_get_irq() to assign the trigger flags to the
irq descriptor when a client looks up an IRQ from static
resources.

Fixes: d52fdbb735c3 ("smc91x: retrieve IRQ and trigger flags in a modern way")
Tested-by: Robert Jarzmik &lt;robert.jarzmik@free.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 7085a7401ba54e92bbb5aa24d6f428071e18e509 upstream.

This fixes a regression from the net subsystem:
After commit d52fdbb735c36a209f36a628d40ca9185b349ba7
"smc91x: retrieve IRQ and trigger flags in a modern way"
a regression would appear on some legacy platforms such
as the ARM PXA Zylonite that specify IRQ resources like
this:

static struct resource r = {
       .start  = X,
       .end    = X,
       .flags  = IORESOURCE_IRQ | IORESOURCE_IRQ_HIGHEDGE,
};

The previous code would retrieve the resource and parse
the high edge setting in the SMC91x driver, a use pattern
that means every driver specifying an IRQ flag from a
static resource need to parse resource flags and apply
them at runtime.

As we switched the code to use IRQ descriptors to retrieve
the the trigger type like this:

  irqd_get_trigger_type(irq_get_irq_data(...));

the code would work for new platforms using e.g. device
tree as the backing irq descriptor would have its flags
properly set, whereas this kind of oldstyle static
resources at no point assign the trigger flags to the
corresponding IRQ descriptor.

To make the behaviour identical on modern device tree
and legacy static platform data platforms, modify
platform_get_irq() to assign the trigger flags to the
irq descriptor when a client looks up an IRQ from static
resources.

Fixes: d52fdbb735c3 ("smc91x: retrieve IRQ and trigger flags in a modern way")
Tested-by: Robert Jarzmik &lt;robert.jarzmik@free.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>memstick: mspro_block: add missing curly braces</title>
<updated>2015-05-06T20:02:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-16T19:48:35+00:00</published>
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commit 13f6b191aaa11c7fd718d35a0c565f3c16bc1d99 upstream.

Using the indenting we can see the curly braces were obviously intended.
This is a static checker fix, but my guess is that we don't read enough
bytes, because we don't calculate "t_len" correctly.

Fixes: f1d82698029b ('memstick: use fully asynchronous request processing')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Dubov &lt;oakad@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 13f6b191aaa11c7fd718d35a0c565f3c16bc1d99 upstream.

Using the indenting we can see the curly braces were obviously intended.
This is a static checker fix, but my guess is that we don't read enough
bytes, because we don't calculate "t_len" correctly.

Fixes: f1d82698029b ('memstick: use fully asynchronous request processing')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Dubov &lt;oakad@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>C6x: time: Ensure consistency in __init</title>
<updated>2015-05-06T20:02:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nishanth Menon</name>
<email>nm@ti.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-07T09:39:05+00:00</published>
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commit f4831605f2dacd12730fe73961c77253cc2ea425 upstream.

time_init invokes timer64_init (which is __init annotation)
since all of these are invoked at init time, lets maintain
consistency by ensuring time_init is marked appropriately
as well.

This fixes the following warning with CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x3bfc): Section mismatch in reference from the function time_init() to the function .init.text:timer64_init()
The function time_init() references
the function __init timer64_init().
This is often because time_init lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of timer64_init is wrong.

Fixes: 546a39546c64 ("C6X: time management")
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon &lt;nm@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f4831605f2dacd12730fe73961c77253cc2ea425 upstream.

time_init invokes timer64_init (which is __init annotation)
since all of these are invoked at init time, lets maintain
consistency by ensuring time_init is marked appropriately
as well.

This fixes the following warning with CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x3bfc): Section mismatch in reference from the function time_init() to the function .init.text:timer64_init()
The function time_init() references
the function __init timer64_init().
This is often because time_init lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of timer64_init is wrong.

Fixes: 546a39546c64 ("C6X: time management")
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon &lt;nm@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>crypto: omap-aes - Fix support for unequal lengths</title>
<updated>2015-05-06T20:02:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vutla, Lokesh</name>
<email>lokeshvutla@ti.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-31T04:22:25+00:00</published>
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commit 6d7e7e02a044025237b6f62a20521170b794537f upstream.

For cases where total length of an input SGs is not same as
length of the input data for encryption, omap-aes driver
crashes. This happens in the case when IPsec is trying to use
omap-aes driver.

To avoid this, we copy all the pages from the input SG list
into a contiguous buffer and prepare a single element SG list
for this buffer with length as the total bytes to crypt, which is
similar thing that is done in case of unaligned lengths.

Fixes: 6242332ff2f3 ("crypto: omap-aes - Add support for cases of unaligned lengths")
Signed-off-by: Lokesh Vutla &lt;lokeshvutla@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6d7e7e02a044025237b6f62a20521170b794537f upstream.

For cases where total length of an input SGs is not same as
length of the input data for encryption, omap-aes driver
crashes. This happens in the case when IPsec is trying to use
omap-aes driver.

To avoid this, we copy all the pages from the input SG list
into a contiguous buffer and prepare a single element SG list
for this buffer with length as the total bytes to crypt, which is
similar thing that is done in case of unaligned lengths.

Fixes: 6242332ff2f3 ("crypto: omap-aes - Add support for cases of unaligned lengths")
Signed-off-by: Lokesh Vutla &lt;lokeshvutla@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>wl18xx: show rx_frames_per_rates as an array as it really is</title>
<updated>2015-05-06T20:02:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Iooss</name>
<email>nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-13T07:17:14+00:00</published>
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commit a3fa71c40f1853d0c27e8f5bc01a722a705d9682 upstream.

In struct wl18xx_acx_rx_rate_stat, rx_frames_per_rates field is an
array, not a number.  This means WL18XX_DEBUGFS_FWSTATS_FILE can't be
used to display this field in debugfs (it would display a pointer, not
the actual data).  Use WL18XX_DEBUGFS_FWSTATS_FILE_ARRAY instead.

This bug has been found by adding a __printf attribute to
wl1271_format_buffer.  gcc complained about "format '%u' expects
argument of type 'unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'u32 *'".

Fixes: c5d94169e818 ("wl18xx: use new fw stats structures")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss &lt;nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a3fa71c40f1853d0c27e8f5bc01a722a705d9682 upstream.

In struct wl18xx_acx_rx_rate_stat, rx_frames_per_rates field is an
array, not a number.  This means WL18XX_DEBUGFS_FWSTATS_FILE can't be
used to display this field in debugfs (it would display a pointer, not
the actual data).  Use WL18XX_DEBUGFS_FWSTATS_FILE_ARRAY instead.

This bug has been found by adding a __printf attribute to
wl1271_format_buffer.  gcc complained about "format '%u' expects
argument of type 'unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'u32 *'".

Fixes: c5d94169e818 ("wl18xx: use new fw stats structures")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss &lt;nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>lib: memzero_explicit: use barrier instead of OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR</title>
<updated>2015-05-06T20:02:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>mancha security</name>
<email>mancha1@zoho.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-18T17:47:25+00:00</published>
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commit 0b053c9518292705736329a8fe20ef4686ffc8e9 upstream.

OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(), as defined when using gcc, is insufficient to
ensure protection from dead store optimization.

For the random driver and crypto drivers, calls are emitted ...

  $ gdb vmlinux
  (gdb) disassemble memzero_explicit
  Dump of assembler code for function memzero_explicit:
    0xffffffff813a18b0 &lt;+0&gt;:	push   %rbp
    0xffffffff813a18b1 &lt;+1&gt;:	mov    %rsi,%rdx
    0xffffffff813a18b4 &lt;+4&gt;:	xor    %esi,%esi
    0xffffffff813a18b6 &lt;+6&gt;:	mov    %rsp,%rbp
    0xffffffff813a18b9 &lt;+9&gt;:	callq  0xffffffff813a7120 &lt;memset&gt;
    0xffffffff813a18be &lt;+14&gt;:	pop    %rbp
    0xffffffff813a18bf &lt;+15&gt;:	retq
  End of assembler dump.

  (gdb) disassemble extract_entropy
  [...]
    0xffffffff814a5009 &lt;+313&gt;:	mov    %r12,%rdi
    0xffffffff814a500c &lt;+316&gt;:	mov    $0xa,%esi
    0xffffffff814a5011 &lt;+321&gt;:	callq  0xffffffff813a18b0 &lt;memzero_explicit&gt;
    0xffffffff814a5016 &lt;+326&gt;:	mov    -0x48(%rbp),%rax
  [...]

... but in case in future we might use facilities such as LTO, then
OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR() is not sufficient to protect gcc from a possible
eviction of the memset(). We have to use a compiler barrier instead.

Minimal test example when we assume memzero_explicit() would *not* be
a call, but would have been *inlined* instead:

  static inline void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count)
  {
    memset(s, 0, count);
    &lt;foo&gt;
  }

  int main(void)
  {
    char buff[20];

    snprintf(buff, sizeof(buff) - 1, "test");
    printf("%s", buff);

    memzero_explicit(buff, sizeof(buff));
    return 0;
  }

With &lt;foo&gt; := OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR():

  (gdb) disassemble main
  Dump of assembler code for function main:
  [...]
   0x0000000000400464 &lt;+36&gt;:	callq  0x400410 &lt;printf@plt&gt;
   0x0000000000400469 &lt;+41&gt;:	xor    %eax,%eax
   0x000000000040046b &lt;+43&gt;:	add    $0x28,%rsp
   0x000000000040046f &lt;+47&gt;:	retq
  End of assembler dump.

With &lt;foo&gt; := barrier():

  (gdb) disassemble main
  Dump of assembler code for function main:
  [...]
   0x0000000000400464 &lt;+36&gt;:	callq  0x400410 &lt;printf@plt&gt;
   0x0000000000400469 &lt;+41&gt;:	movq   $0x0,(%rsp)
   0x0000000000400471 &lt;+49&gt;:	movq   $0x0,0x8(%rsp)
   0x000000000040047a &lt;+58&gt;:	movl   $0x0,0x10(%rsp)
   0x0000000000400482 &lt;+66&gt;:	xor    %eax,%eax
   0x0000000000400484 &lt;+68&gt;:	add    $0x28,%rsp
   0x0000000000400488 &lt;+72&gt;:	retq
  End of assembler dump.

As can be seen, movq, movq, movl are being emitted inlined
via memset().

Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cryptoapi/13764/
Fixes: d4c5efdb9777 ("random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data")
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: mancha security &lt;mancha1@zoho.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Acked-by: Stephan Mueller &lt;smueller@chronox.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0b053c9518292705736329a8fe20ef4686ffc8e9 upstream.

OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(), as defined when using gcc, is insufficient to
ensure protection from dead store optimization.

For the random driver and crypto drivers, calls are emitted ...

  $ gdb vmlinux
  (gdb) disassemble memzero_explicit
  Dump of assembler code for function memzero_explicit:
    0xffffffff813a18b0 &lt;+0&gt;:	push   %rbp
    0xffffffff813a18b1 &lt;+1&gt;:	mov    %rsi,%rdx
    0xffffffff813a18b4 &lt;+4&gt;:	xor    %esi,%esi
    0xffffffff813a18b6 &lt;+6&gt;:	mov    %rsp,%rbp
    0xffffffff813a18b9 &lt;+9&gt;:	callq  0xffffffff813a7120 &lt;memset&gt;
    0xffffffff813a18be &lt;+14&gt;:	pop    %rbp
    0xffffffff813a18bf &lt;+15&gt;:	retq
  End of assembler dump.

  (gdb) disassemble extract_entropy
  [...]
    0xffffffff814a5009 &lt;+313&gt;:	mov    %r12,%rdi
    0xffffffff814a500c &lt;+316&gt;:	mov    $0xa,%esi
    0xffffffff814a5011 &lt;+321&gt;:	callq  0xffffffff813a18b0 &lt;memzero_explicit&gt;
    0xffffffff814a5016 &lt;+326&gt;:	mov    -0x48(%rbp),%rax
  [...]

... but in case in future we might use facilities such as LTO, then
OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR() is not sufficient to protect gcc from a possible
eviction of the memset(). We have to use a compiler barrier instead.

Minimal test example when we assume memzero_explicit() would *not* be
a call, but would have been *inlined* instead:

  static inline void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count)
  {
    memset(s, 0, count);
    &lt;foo&gt;
  }

  int main(void)
  {
    char buff[20];

    snprintf(buff, sizeof(buff) - 1, "test");
    printf("%s", buff);

    memzero_explicit(buff, sizeof(buff));
    return 0;
  }

With &lt;foo&gt; := OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR():

  (gdb) disassemble main
  Dump of assembler code for function main:
  [...]
   0x0000000000400464 &lt;+36&gt;:	callq  0x400410 &lt;printf@plt&gt;
   0x0000000000400469 &lt;+41&gt;:	xor    %eax,%eax
   0x000000000040046b &lt;+43&gt;:	add    $0x28,%rsp
   0x000000000040046f &lt;+47&gt;:	retq
  End of assembler dump.

With &lt;foo&gt; := barrier():

  (gdb) disassemble main
  Dump of assembler code for function main:
  [...]
   0x0000000000400464 &lt;+36&gt;:	callq  0x400410 &lt;printf@plt&gt;
   0x0000000000400469 &lt;+41&gt;:	movq   $0x0,(%rsp)
   0x0000000000400471 &lt;+49&gt;:	movq   $0x0,0x8(%rsp)
   0x000000000040047a &lt;+58&gt;:	movl   $0x0,0x10(%rsp)
   0x0000000000400482 &lt;+66&gt;:	xor    %eax,%eax
   0x0000000000400484 &lt;+68&gt;:	add    $0x28,%rsp
   0x0000000000400488 &lt;+72&gt;:	retq
  End of assembler dump.

As can be seen, movq, movq, movl are being emitted inlined
via memset().

Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cryptoapi/13764/
Fixes: d4c5efdb9777 ("random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data")
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: mancha security &lt;mancha1@zoho.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Acked-by: Stephan Mueller &lt;smueller@chronox.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>ebpf: verifier: check that call reg with ARG_ANYTHING is initialized</title>
<updated>2015-05-06T20:02:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-12T16:21:42+00:00</published>
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commit 80f1d68ccba70b1060c9c7360ca83da430f66bed upstream.

I noticed that a helper function with argument type ARG_ANYTHING does
not need to have an initialized value (register).

This can worst case lead to unintented stack memory leakage in future
helper functions if they are not carefully designed, or unintended
application behaviour in case the application developer was not careful
enough to match a correct helper function signature in the API.

The underlying issue is that ARG_ANYTHING should actually be split
into two different semantics:

  1) ARG_DONTCARE for function arguments that the helper function
     does not care about (in other words: the default for unused
     function arguments), and

  2) ARG_ANYTHING that is an argument actually being used by a
     helper function and *guaranteed* to be an initialized register.

The current risk is low: ARG_ANYTHING is only used for the 'flags'
argument (r4) in bpf_map_update_elem() that internally does strict
checking.

Fixes: 17a5267067f3 ("bpf: verifier (add verifier core)")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 80f1d68ccba70b1060c9c7360ca83da430f66bed upstream.

I noticed that a helper function with argument type ARG_ANYTHING does
not need to have an initialized value (register).

This can worst case lead to unintented stack memory leakage in future
helper functions if they are not carefully designed, or unintended
application behaviour in case the application developer was not careful
enough to match a correct helper function signature in the API.

The underlying issue is that ARG_ANYTHING should actually be split
into two different semantics:

  1) ARG_DONTCARE for function arguments that the helper function
     does not care about (in other words: the default for unused
     function arguments), and

  2) ARG_ANYTHING that is an argument actually being used by a
     helper function and *guaranteed* to be an initialized register.

The current risk is low: ARG_ANYTHING is only used for the 'flags'
argument (r4) in bpf_map_update_elem() that internally does strict
checking.

Fixes: 17a5267067f3 ("bpf: verifier (add verifier core)")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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