[GIT PULL] fixes for v5.2-rc8

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Mon Jul 01 2019 - 12:18:18 EST


Hi Linus,

This contains a single urgent fix for copy_process() in kernel/fork.c:

The following changes since commit 6fbc7275c7a9ba97877050335f290341a1fd8dbf:

Linux 5.2-rc7 (2019-06-30 11:25:36 +0800)

are available in the Git repository at:

git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux tags/for-linus-20190701

for you to fetch changes up to 28dd29c06d0dede4b32b2c559cff21955a830928:

fork: return proper negative error code (2019-07-01 16:43:30 +0200)

With Al's removal of ksys_close() from cleanup paths in copy_process() a
bug was introduced. When anon_inode_getfile() failed the cleanup was
correctly performed but the error code was not propagated to callers of
copy_process() causing them to operate on a nonsensical pointer. The fix is
a simple on-liner which makes sure that a proper negative error code is
returned from copy_process().
syzkaller has also verified that the bug is not reproducible with the patch
in this branch.

Please consider pulling these changes from the signed for-linus-20190701 tag.

Thanks!
Christian

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Christian Brauner (1):
fork: return proper negative error code

kernel/fork.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)