From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Vrabel Subject: [PATCH] xen/x86: don't corrupt %eip when returning from a signal handler Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:42:30 +0100 Message-ID: <1350474150-3990-1-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org Cc: stable@kernel.org, Frediano Ziglio , David Vrabel , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org From: David Vrabel 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. For consistency, we also change xen_failsafe_callback(). Classic Xen kernels pushed %eax which works as %eax cannot be both non-negative and -RESTARTSYS (etc.), but using -1 avoids the additional tests in handle_signal(). Signed-off-by: David Vrabel Cc: stable@kernel.org --- arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S index 2c63407..6a19e66 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S @@ -1042,7 +1042,7 @@ ENTRY(xen_sysenter_target) ENTRY(xen_hypervisor_callback) CFI_STARTPROC - pushl_cfi $0 + pushl_cfi $-1 /* orig_ax = -1 => not a system call */ SAVE_ALL TRACE_IRQS_OFF @@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@ ENDPROC(xen_hypervisor_callback) # We distinguish between categories by maintaining a status value in EAX. ENTRY(xen_failsafe_callback) CFI_STARTPROC - pushl_cfi %eax + pushl_cfi $-1 /* orig_ax = -1 => not a system call */ movl $1,%eax 1: mov 4(%esp),%ds 2: mov 8(%esp),%es -- 1.7.2.5