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commit 3433adc8bd09fc9f29b8baddf33b4ecd1ecd2cdc upstream. We have NR_syscall syscalls from [0 .. NR_syscall-1]. However the check for invalid syscall number is "> NR_syscall" as opposed to >=. This off-by-one error erronesously allows "NR_syscall" to be treated as valid syscall causeing out-of-bounds access into syscall-call table ensuing a crash (holes within syscall table have a invalid-entry handler but this is beyond the array implementing the table). This problem showed up on v5.6 kernel when testing glibc 2.33 (v5.10 kernel capable, includng faccessat2 syscall 439). The v5.6 kernel has NR_syscalls=439 (0 to 438). Due to the bug, 439 passed by glibc was not handled as -ENOSYS but processed leading to a crash. Link: https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/linux/issues/48 Reported-by: Shahab Vahedi <shahab@synopsys.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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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 Restructured Text 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.