sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_{from_to}_user for UltraSPARC III

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_{from_to}_user for UltraSPARC III Anthony Yznaga tracked down that a BUG_ON in ext4 code with large folios enabled resulted from copy_from_user() returning impossibly large values greater than the size to be copied. This lead to __copy_from_iter() returning impossible values instead of the actual number of bytes it was able to copy. The BUG_ON has been reported in https://lore.kernel.org/r/b14f55642207e63e907965e209f6323a0df6dcee.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de The referenced commit introduced exception handlers on user-space memory references in copy_from_user and copy_to_user. These handlers return from the respective function and calculate the remaining bytes left to copy using the current register contents. The exception handlers expect that %o2 has already been masked during the bulk copy loop, but the masking was performed after that loop. This will fix the return value of copy_from_user and copy_to_user in the faulting case. The behaviour of memcpy stays unchanged.

Timeline

1. Nov 12, 2025, 10:23 AM UTCCVE published
2. Aug 5, 2026, 12:07 PM UTCRecord last updated

Affected versions

• Linux Linux

  From 4.4.34 · fixed in 4.5; From 4.8.10 · fixed in 4.9

• Linux Linux

  4.9

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