Re: [PATCH v5 1/7] mips: fix mips_get_syscall_arg() for o32

["Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@strace.io>]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 06:30:33PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2025, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> 
> > The first assertion is fixed for mips o32 by using struct pt_regs.pad0
> > instead of get_user() to obtain syscall arguments.  This approach works
> > due to this piece in arch/mips/kernel/scall32-o32.S:
> 
>  I've had a look now and I can see what's going on here.
> 
>  The thing is we're trying to access another task's context and obviously 
> dereferencing $sp obtained from it is not going to work via get_user(), 
> because that just peeks at the current task's context.  It often does not 
> crash, because the default user stack always gets assigned the same VMA, 
> but it is pure luck which we wouldn't have if the stack was switched (via 
> setcontext(3) or however) or say a non-default process's thread peeked at, 
> and in any case irrelevant data is obtained just as observed with the test 
> case.
> 
>  We ought to be using access_remote_vm() to retrieve the other task's 
> stack contents, but given that the data has been already obtained and 
> saved in `struct pt_regs' it would be an overkill.
> 
>  So I think your change is actually the correct thing to do, but please 
> let's not abuse a struct member called `pad', the name of which indicates 
> its contents are not supposed to be of any use.  I have therefore posted a 
> preparatory cleanup[1].  May you please rebase your patch on top of that 
> and also update the change description so as to reflect the findings?
> 
>  Thomas, can you please apply my cleanup soon and ahead of Dmitry's change 
> so as to make things easy to proceed with?  Or otherwise let me know what 
> works for you best.
> 
>  Also I have a suspicion this stuff ought to be backported, but I guess it 
> can be decided later on.
> 
>  Thank you for your patience.
> 
> [1] "MIPS: Export syscall stack arguments properly for remote use", 
>     <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/alpine.DEB.2.21.2502101732120.65342@angie.orcam.me.uk/>

Thanks for the analysis, I'm going to rebase my fix and send it
as a follow-up to your cleanup patch.


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