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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 034/172] MIPS: Avoid accidental raw backtrace
Date: Mon,  3 Jul 2017 15:33:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170703133415.850691358@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170703133414.260777365@linuxfoundation.org>

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>

commit 854236363370995a609a10b03e35fd3dc5e9e4a1 upstream.

Since commit 81a76d7119f6 ("MIPS: Avoid using unwind_stack() with
usermode") show_backtrace() invokes the raw backtracer when
cp0_status & ST0_KSU indicates user mode to fix issues on EVA kernels
where user and kernel address spaces overlap.

However this is used by show_stack() which creates its own pt_regs on
the stack and leaves cp0_status uninitialised in most of the code paths.
This results in the non deterministic use of the raw back tracer
depending on the previous stack content.

show_stack() deals exclusively with kernel mode stacks anyway, so
explicitly initialise regs.cp0_status to KSU_KERNEL (i.e. 0) to ensure
we get a useful backtrace.

Fixes: 81a76d7119f6 ("MIPS: Avoid using unwind_stack() with usermode")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16656/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/mips/kernel/traps.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
@@ -199,6 +199,8 @@ void show_stack(struct task_struct *task
 {
 	struct pt_regs regs;
 	mm_segment_t old_fs = get_fs();
+
+	regs.cp0_status = KSU_KERNEL;
 	if (sp) {
 		regs.regs[29] = (unsigned long)sp;
 		regs.regs[31] = 0;

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-07-03 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20170703133414.260777365@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-07-03 13:33 ` [PATCH 4.9 033/172] MIPS: head: Reorder instructions missing a delay slot Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-07-03 13:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2017-07-03 13:33 ` [PATCH 4.9 035/172] MIPS: pm-cps: Drop manual cache-line alignment of ready_count Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-07-03 13:33 ` [PATCH 4.9 036/172] MIPS: Fix IRQ tracing & lockdep when rescheduling Greg Kroah-Hartman

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