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| author | David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> | 2012-10-19 17:29:07 +0100 |
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| committer | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> | 2012-10-19 15:17:59 -0400 |
| commit | a349e23d1cf746f8bdc603dcc61fae9ee4a695f6 (patch) | |
| tree | 49df313d4d1e37189e1ae6f052d11381e1443f80 /arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | |
| parent | ee7b5958e2494619ee3ff52de68580feed6906a2 (diff) | |
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xen/x86: don't corrupt %eip when returning from a signal handler
In 32 bit guests, if a userspace process has %eax == -ERESTARTSYS
(-512) or -ERESTARTNOINTR (-513) when it is interrupted by an event
/and/ the process has a pending signal then %eip (and %eax) are
corrupted when returning to the main process after handling the
signal. The application may then crash with SIGSEGV or a SIGILL or it
may have subtly incorrect behaviour (depending on what instruction it
returned to).
The occurs because handle_signal() is incorrectly thinking that there
is a system call that needs to restarted so it adjusts %eip and %eax
to re-execute the system call instruction (even though user space had
not done a system call).
If %eax == -514 (-ERESTARTNOHAND (-514) or -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK
(-516) then handle_signal() only corrupted %eax (by setting it to
-EINTR). This may cause the application to crash or have incorrect
behaviour.
handle_signal() assumes that regs->orig_ax >= 0 means a system call so
any kernel entry point that is not for a system call must push a
negative value for orig_ax. For example, for physical interrupts on
bare metal the inverse of the vector is pushed and page_fault() sets
regs->orig_ax to -1, overwriting the hardware provided error code.
xen_hypervisor_callback() was incorrectly pushing 0 for orig_ax
instead of -1.
Classic Xen kernels pushed %eax which works as %eax cannot be both
non-negative and -RESTARTSYS (etc.), but using -1 is consistent with
other non-system call entry points and avoids some of the tests in
handle_signal().
There were similar bugs in xen_failsafe_callback() of both 32 and
64-bit guests. If the fault was corrected and the normal return path
was used then 0 was incorrectly pushed as the value for orig_ax.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S index 69babd8c834f..dcdd0ea33a32 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S @@ -1363,7 +1363,7 @@ ENTRY(xen_failsafe_callback) CFI_RESTORE r11 addq $0x30,%rsp CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET -0x30 - pushq_cfi $0 + pushq_cfi $-1 /* orig_ax = -1 => not a system call */ SAVE_ALL jmp error_exit CFI_ENDPROC |
