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

    rpc: comment on linux_cred encoding, treat all as unsigned

to the 3.10-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:
     rpc-comment-on-linux_cred-encoding-treat-all-as-unsigned.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

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


>From 6a36978e6931e6601be586eb313375335f2cfaa3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Bruce Fields" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:17:53 -0400
Subject: rpc: comment on linux_cred encoding, treat all as unsigned

From: "J. Bruce Fields" <[email protected]>

commit 6a36978e6931e6601be586eb313375335f2cfaa3 upstream.

The encoding of linux creds is a bit confusing.

Also: I think in practice it doesn't really matter whether we treat any
of these things as signed or unsigned, but unsigned seems more
straightforward: uid_t/gid_t are unsigned and it simplifies the ngroups
overflow check.

Tested-by: Simo Sorce <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_xdr.c |   18 ++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_xdr.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_xdr.c
@@ -166,14 +166,15 @@ static int dummy_dec_opt_array(struct xd
        return 0;
 }
 
-static int get_s32(struct xdr_stream *xdr, s32 *res)
+static int get_host_u32(struct xdr_stream *xdr, u32 *res)
 {
        __be32 *p;
 
        p = xdr_inline_decode(xdr, 4);
        if (!p)
                return -EINVAL;
-       memcpy(res, p, sizeof(s32));
+       /* Contents of linux creds are all host-endian: */
+       memcpy(res, p, sizeof(u32));
        return 0;
 }
 
@@ -182,8 +183,9 @@ static int gssx_dec_linux_creds(struct x
 {
        u32 length;
        __be32 *p;
-       s32 tmp;
-       int N, i, err;
+       u32 tmp;
+       u32 N;
+       int i, err;
 
        p = xdr_inline_decode(xdr, 4);
        if (unlikely(p == NULL))
@@ -195,19 +197,19 @@ static int gssx_dec_linux_creds(struct x
                return -ENOSPC;
 
        /* uid */
-       err = get_s32(xdr, &tmp);
+       err = get_host_u32(xdr, &tmp);
        if (err)
                return err;
        creds->cr_uid = make_kuid(&init_user_ns, tmp);
 
        /* gid */
-       err = get_s32(xdr, &tmp);
+       err = get_host_u32(xdr, &tmp);
        if (err)
                return err;
        creds->cr_gid = make_kgid(&init_user_ns, tmp);
 
        /* number of additional gid's */
-       err = get_s32(xdr, &tmp);
+       err = get_host_u32(xdr, &tmp);
        if (err)
                return err;
        N = tmp;
@@ -220,7 +222,7 @@ static int gssx_dec_linux_creds(struct x
        /* gid's */
        for (i = 0; i < N; i++) {
                kgid_t kgid;
-               err = get_s32(xdr, &tmp);
+               err = get_host_u32(xdr, &tmp);
                if (err)
                        goto out_free_groups;
                err = -EINVAL;


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

queue-3.10/rpc-clean-up-decoding-of-gssproxy-linux-creds.patch
queue-3.10/rpc-let-xdr-layer-allocate-gssproxy-receieve-pages.patch
queue-3.10/rpc-comment-on-linux_cred-encoding-treat-all-as-unsigned.patch
queue-3.10/rpc-fix-huge-kmalloc-s-in-gss-proxy.patch
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