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Amir Mohammad Jahangirzad 70aa2ff980 ACPI: debug: fix signedness issues in read/write helpers 
commit 496f9372ea upstream.

In the ACPI debugger interface, the helper functions for read and write
operations use "int" as the length parameter data type. When a large
"size_t count" is passed from the file operations, this cast to "int"
results in truncation and a negative value due to signed integer
representation.

Logically, this negative number propagates to the min() calculation,
where it is selected over the positive buffer space value, leading to
unexpected behavior. Subsequently, when this negative value is used in
copy_to_user() or copy_from_user(), it is interpreted as a large positive
value due to the unsigned nature of the size parameter in these functions,
causing the copy operations to attempt handling sizes far beyond the
intended buffer limits.

Address the issue by:
 - Changing the length parameters in acpi_aml_read_user() and
   acpi_aml_write_user() from "int" to "size_t", aligning with the
   expected unsigned size semantics.
 - Updating return types and local variables in acpi_aml_read() and
   acpi_aml_write() to "ssize_t" for consistency with kernel file
   operation conventions.
 - Using "size_t" for the "n" variable to ensure calculations remain
   unsigned.
 - Using min_t() for circ_count_to_end() and circ_space_to_end() to
   ensure type-safe comparisons and prevent integer overflow.

Signed-off-by: Amir Mohammad Jahangirzad <a.jahangirzad@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923013113.20615-1-a.jahangirzad@gmail.com
[ rjw: Changelog tweaks, local variable definitions ordering adjustments ]
Fixes: 8cfb0cdf07 ("ACPI / debugger: Add IO interface to access debugger functionalities")
Cc: 4.5+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.5+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2025-10-19 16:37:16 +02:00
arch s390/vmlinux.lds.S: Move .vmlinux.info to end of allocatable sections 2025-10-19 16:37:16 +02:00
block blk-throttle: fix throtl_data leak during disk release 2025-10-15 12:03:34 +02:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: essiv - Check ssize for decryption and in-place encryption 2025-10-19 16:37:14 +02:00
Documentation Documentation: trace: historgram-design: Separate sched_waking histogram section heading and the following diagram 2025-10-15 12:04:01 +02:00
drivers ACPI: debug: fix signedness issues in read/write helpers 2025-10-19 16:37:16 +02:00
fs cifs: Query EA $LXMOD in cifs_query_path_info() for WSL reparse points 2025-10-19 16:37:15 +02:00
include kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped 2025-10-19 16:37:15 +02:00
init Fix CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT on non-x86 architectures 2025-10-15 12:03:13 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/zcrx: increment fallback loop src offset 2025-10-19 16:37:14 +02:00
ipc vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare 2025-07-28 13:43:25 -07:00
kernel bpf: Avoid RCU context warning when unpinning htab with internal structs 2025-10-19 16:37:15 +02:00
lib vdso/datastore: Gate time data behind CONFIG_GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY 2025-10-15 12:03:24 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm memcg: skip cgroup_file_notify if spinning is not allowed 2025-10-19 16:37:00 +02:00
net bridge: br_vlan_fill_forward_path_pvid: use br_vlan_group_rcu() 2025-10-19 16:37:13 +02:00
rust cpufreq: Make drivers using CPUFREQ_ETERNAL specify transition latency 2025-10-19 16:37:00 +02:00
samples 15 hotfixes. 11 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues 2025-09-17 21:34:26 -07:00
scripts kbuild: Add '.rel.*' strip pattern for vmlinux 2025-10-19 16:37:15 +02:00
security lsm: CONFIG_LSM can depend on CONFIG_SECURITY 2025-10-15 12:03:17 +02:00
sound ASoC: SOF: Intel: Read the LLP via the associated Link DMA channel 2025-10-19 16:37:09 +02:00
tools ACPICA: acpidump: drop ACPI_NONSTRING attribute from file_name 2025-10-19 16:37:16 +02:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt Merge tag 'kvm-x86-no_assignment-6.17' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD 2025-07-29 08:36:42 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore gitignore: allow .pylintrc to be tracked 2025-07-02 17:10:04 -06:00
.mailmap 7 hotfixes. 4 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues or 2025-09-28 09:32:00 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: retire Boris from TLS maintainers 2025-08-26 17:36:01 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS i2c-for-6.17-rc8 2025-09-28 13:19:23 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.17.3 2025-10-15 12:04:23 +02:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.