[34-longterm 098/260] arm: fix really nasty sigreturn bug

Paul Gortmaker
2011-01-02T07:58:31Z

From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

commit 653d48b22166db2d8b1515ebe6f9f0f7c95dfc86 upstream.

If a signal hits us outside of a syscall and another gets delivered
when we are in sigreturn (e.g. because it had been in sa_mask for
the first one and got sent to us while we'd been in the first handler),
we have a chance of returning from the second handler to location one
insn prior to where we ought to return. If r0 happens to contain -513
(-ERESTARTNOINTR), sigreturn will get confused into doing restart
syscall song and dance.

Incredible joy to debug, since it manifests as random, infrequent and
very hard to reproduce double execution of instructions in userland
code...

The fix is simple - mark it "don't bother with restarts" in wrapper,
i.e. set r8 to 0 in sys_sigreturn and sys_rt_sigreturn wrappers,
suppressing the syscall restart handling on return from these guys.
They can't legitimately return a restart-worthy error anyway.

Testcase:
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <errno.h>

void f(int n)
{
__asm__ __volatile__(
"ldr r0, [%0]\n"
"b 1f\n"
"b 2f\n"
"1:b .\n"
"2:\n" : : "r"(&n));
}

void handler1(int sig) { }
void handler2(int sig) { raise(1); }
void handler3(int sig) { exit(0); }

main()
{
struct sigaction s = {.sa_handler = handler2};
struct itimerval t1 = { .it_value = {1} };
struct itimerval t2 = { .it_value = {2} };

signal(1, handler1);

sigemptyset(&s.sa_mask);
sigaddset(&s.sa_mask, 1);
sigaction(SIGALRM, &s, NULL);

signal(SIGVTALRM, handler3);

setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &t1, NULL);
setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, &t2, NULL);

f(-513); /* -ERESTARTNOINTR */

write(1, "buggered\n", 9);
return 1;
}

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
---
arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S
index 2c1db77..a6c66f5 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S
@@ -382,11 +382,13 @@ ENDPROC(sys_clone_wrapper)

sys_sigreturn_wrapper:
add r0, sp, #S_OFF
+ mov why, #0 @ prevent syscall restart handling
b sys_sigreturn
ENDPROC(sys_sigreturn_wrapper)

sys_rt_sigreturn_wrapper:
add r0, sp, #S_OFF
+ mov why, #0 @ prevent syscall restart handling
b sys_rt_sigreturn
ENDPROC(sys_rt_sigreturn_wrapper)

--
1.7.3.3