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Florent Revest 2500a33323 mm: make PR_MDWE_REFUSE_EXEC_GAIN an unsigned long
commit 0da668333f upstream.

Defining a prctl flag as an int is a footgun because on a 64 bit machine
and with a variadic implementation of prctl (like in musl and glibc), when
used directly as a prctl argument, it can get casted to long with garbage
upper bits which would result in unexpected behaviors.

This patch changes the constant to an unsigned long to eliminate that
possibilities.  This does not break UAPI.

I think that a stable backport would be "nice to have": to reduce the
chances that users build binaries that could end up with garbage bits in
their MDWE prctl arguments.  We are not aware of anyone having yet
encountered this corner case with MDWE prctls but a backport would reduce
the likelihood it happens, since this sort of issues has happened with
other prctls.  But If this is perceived as a backporting burden, I suppose
we could also live without a stable backport.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230828150858.393570-5-revest@chromium.org
Fixes: b507808ebc ("mm: implement memory-deny-write-execute as a prctl")
Signed-off-by: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Alexey Izbyshev <izbyshev@ispras.ru>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Ayush Jain <ayush.jain3@amd.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com>
Cc: Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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arch s390/cmma: fix detection of DAT pages 2023-11-28 17:20:05 +00:00
block blk-mq: make sure active queue usage is held for bio_integrity_prep() 2023-11-28 17:19:51 +00:00
certs certs: Reference revocation list for all keyrings 2023-08-17 20:12:41 +00:00
crypto crypto: pcrypt - Fix hungtask for PADATA_RESET 2023-11-28 17:19:42 +00:00
Documentation dt-bindings: timer: renesas,rz-mtu3: Fix overflow/underflow interrupt names 2023-11-28 17:20:02 +00:00
drivers dmaengine: stm32-mdma: correct desc prep when channel running 2023-11-28 17:20:05 +00:00
fs fs: use nth_page() in place of direct struct page manipulation 2023-11-28 17:20:05 +00:00
include mm: make PR_MDWE_REFUSE_EXEC_GAIN an unsigned long 2023-11-28 17:20:06 +00:00
init proc: sysctl: prevent aliased sysctls from getting passed to init 2023-11-28 17:19:57 +00:00
io_uring io_uring/fdinfo: remove need for sqpoll lock for thread/pid retrieval 2023-11-28 17:19:52 +00:00
ipc Add x86 shadow stack support 2023-08-31 12:20:12 -07:00
kernel tracing: Have the user copy of synthetic event address use correct context 2023-11-28 17:20:05 +00:00
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net netfilter: nf_tables: split async and sync catchall in two functions 2023-11-28 17:20:03 +00:00
rust rust: docs: fix logo replacement 2023-10-19 16:40:00 +02:00
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