kernel-ark/arch/s390
Robert Richter 913050b91e oprofile: Fix uninitialized memory access when writing to writing to oprofilefs
If oprofilefs_ulong_from_user() is called with count equals
zero, *val remains unchanged. Depending on the implementation it
might be uninitialized.

Change oprofilefs_ulong_from_user()'s interface to return count
on success. Thus, we are able to return early if count equals
zero which avoids using *val uninitialized. Fixing all users of
oprofilefs_ulong_ from_user().

This follows write syscall implementation when count is zero:
"If count is zero ... [and if] no errors are detected, 0 will be
returned without causing any other effect." (man 2 write)

Reported-By: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: oprofile-list <oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111219153830.GH16765@erda.amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-19 17:18:43 +01:00
..
appldata [S390] mm: add ZONE_DMA to 31-bit config again 2011-05-26 09:48:25 +02:00
boot [S390] sparse: fix sparse static warnings 2011-10-30 15:16:46 +01:00
crypto [S390] crypto: avoid MSA3 and MSA4 instructions in ESA mode 2011-11-14 11:19:09 +01:00
hypfs filesystems: add set_nlink() 2011-11-02 12:53:43 +01:00
include/asm [S390] fix page change underindication in pgste_update_all 2011-12-01 13:32:17 +01:00
kernel [S390] remove reset of system call restart on psw changes 2011-12-01 13:32:17 +01:00
kvm KVM: s390: announce SYNC_MMU 2011-11-17 16:25:52 +02:00
lib [S390] sparse: fix sparse warnings with __user pointers 2011-10-30 15:16:46 +01:00
math-emu s390: change to new flag variable 2011-03-17 14:02:57 +01:00
mm [S390] pfault: ignore leftover completion interrupts 2011-11-14 11:19:08 +01:00
oprofile oprofile: Fix uninitialized memory access when writing to writing to oprofilefs 2011-12-19 17:18:43 +01:00
defconfig [S390] defconfig: switch on CONFIG_DEVTMPFS 2011-10-30 15:16:42 +01:00
Kbuild [S390] standardize Kbuild rules 2010-10-25 16:10:14 +02:00
Kconfig [S390] Kconfig: Select CONFIG_KEXEC for CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP 2011-11-14 11:19:08 +01:00
Kconfig.debug [S390] Write protect module text and RO data 2011-03-15 17:08:23 +01:00
Makefile [S390] remove redundant stack check option 2011-03-15 17:08:22 +01:00