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

    Fix length of buffer copied in __nfs4_get_acl_uncached

to the 3.3-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:
     fix-length-of-buffer-copied-in-__nfs4_get_acl_uncached.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.3 subdirectory.

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


>From 20e0fa98b751facf9a1101edaefbc19c82616a68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sachin Prabhu <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:46:28 +0000
Subject: Fix length of buffer copied in __nfs4_get_acl_uncached

From: Sachin Prabhu <[email protected]>

commit 20e0fa98b751facf9a1101edaefbc19c82616a68 upstream.

_copy_from_pages() used to copy data from the temporary buffer to the
user passed buffer is passed the wrong size parameter when copying
data. res.acl_len contains both the bitmap and acl lenghts while
acl_len contains the acl length after adjusting for the bitmap size.

Signed-off-by: Sachin Prabhu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Boyer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
@@ -3625,7 +3625,7 @@ static ssize_t __nfs4_get_acl_uncached(s
                if (acl_len > buflen)
                        goto out_free;
                _copy_from_pages(buf, pages, res.acl_data_offset,
-                               res.acl_len);
+                               acl_len);
        }
        ret = acl_len;
 out_free:


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

queue-3.3/fix-length-of-buffer-copied-in-__nfs4_get_acl_uncached.patch
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