BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1393355 Compat function takes msgtyp argument as u32 and passes it down to do_msgrcv which results in casting to long, thus the sign is lost and we get a big positive number instead. Cast the argument to signed type before passing it down. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik Reported-by: Gabriellla Schmidt Upstream-Status::Backport Kernel 3.14 diff --git a/ipc/compat.c b/ipc/compat.c index 892f658..d3b3760 100644 --- a/ipc/compat.c +++ b/ipc/compat.c @@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE6(ipc, u32, call, int, first, int, second, uptr = compat_ptr(ipck.msgp); fifth = ipck.msgtyp; } - return do_msgrcv(first, uptr, second, fifth, third, + return do_msgrcv(first, uptr, second, (s32)fifth, third, compat_do_msg_fill); } case MSGGET: