On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 07:53:22PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
>
> [ Upstream commit 170b2c350cfcb6f74074e44dd9f916787546db0d ]
>
> A recent commit factored out a series of annoying (unsigned long) casts
> into a single variable declaration, but made the pointer type a
> `uintptr_t` rather than the usual `unsigned long`. This patch changes it
> to be the integer type more typically used by the kernel to represent
> addresses.
>
> Fixes: 35fb9ae4aa2e ("usercopy: Cast pointer to an integer once")
Not sure why this needs to be backported?
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220616143617.449094-1-Jason@zx2c4.com
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> ---
> mm/usercopy.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/usercopy.c b/mm/usercopy.c
> index 4e1da708699b..c1ee15a98633 100644
> --- a/mm/usercopy.c
> +++ b/mm/usercopy.c
> @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ static inline void check_bogus_address(const unsigned long ptr, unsigned long n,
> static inline void check_heap_object(const void *ptr, unsigned long n,
> bool to_user)
> {
> - uintptr_t addr = (uintptr_t)ptr;
> + unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)ptr;
> unsigned long offset;
> struct folio *folio;
>
> --
> 2.35.1
>
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