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

    lib: Fix strnlen_user() to not touch memory after specified maximum

to the 4.0-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:
     lib-fix-strnlen_user-to-not-touch-memory-after-specified-maximum.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.

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


>From f18c34e483ff6b1d9866472221e4015b3a4698e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 17:10:28 +0200
Subject: lib: Fix strnlen_user() to not touch memory after specified maximum

From: Jan Kara <[email protected]>

commit f18c34e483ff6b1d9866472221e4015b3a4698e4 upstream.

If the specified maximum length of the string is a multiple of unsigned
long, we would load one long behind the specified maximum.  If that
happens to be in a next page, we can hit a page fault although we were
not expected to.

Fix the off-by-one bug in the test whether we are at the end of the
specified range.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 lib/strnlen_user.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/lib/strnlen_user.c
+++ b/lib/strnlen_user.c
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ static inline long do_strnlen_user(const
                        return res + find_zero(data) + 1 - align;
                }
                res += sizeof(unsigned long);
-               if (unlikely(max < sizeof(unsigned long)))
+               /* We already handled 'unsigned long' bytes. Did we do it all ? 
*/
+               if (unlikely(max <= sizeof(unsigned long)))
                        break;
                max -= sizeof(unsigned long);
                if (unlikely(__get_user(c,(unsigned long __user *)(src+res))))


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

queue-4.0/lib-fix-strnlen_user-to-not-touch-memory-after-specified-maximum.patch
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