[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "ARM: 7913/1: fix framepointer check in unwind_frame" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ARM: 7913/1: fix framepointer check in unwind_frame

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.16.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 1de707fa996223667b5a2c9797b9910f06a8ff27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <k.khlebnikov at samsung.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 14:23:48 +0100
Subject: ARM: 7913/1: fix framepointer check in unwind_frame

commit 3abb6671a9c04479c4bd026798a05f857393b7e2 upstream.

This patch fixes corner case when (fp + 4) overflows unsigned long,
for example: fp = 0xFFFFFFFF -> fp + 4 == 3.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <k.khlebnikov at samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/stacktrace.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/arm/kernel/stacktrace.c
index 00f79e5..af4e8c8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/stacktrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/stacktrace.c
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ int notrace unwind_frame(struct stackframe *frame)
 	high = ALIGN(low, THREAD_SIZE);

 	/* check current frame pointer is within bounds */
-	if (fp < (low + 12) || fp + 4 >= high)
+	if (fp < low + 12 || fp > high - 4)
 		return -EINVAL;

 	/* restore the registers from the stack frame */
--
1.8.3.2