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Commit 22572119 authored by James Hogan's avatar James Hogan
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metag/usercopy: Fix alignment error checking

Fix the error checking of the alignment adjustment code in
raw_copy_from_user(), which mistakenly considers it safe to skip the
error check when aligning the source buffer on a 2 or 4 byte boundary.

If the destination buffer was unaligned it may have started to copy
using byte or word accesses, which could well be at the start of a new
(valid) source page. This would result in it appearing to have copied 1
or 2 bytes at the end of the first (invalid) page rather than none at
all.

Fixes: 373cd784

 ("metag: Memory handling")
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
parent ef62a2d8
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