Re: [Bug #12505] 2.6.29-rc1 Firefox crashing on page load

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> > (added Cc:s)
> 
> > Justin, does it work if you apply the patch below instead of the revert?
> 
> hm, that patch wont build because the protect_asmlinkage macro is rather 
> limited - it cannot deal with structure parameters.
> 
> We might be better off with a revert here, and a comment added that points 
> out the problem.

Below is the revert+document commit that i have queued up.

Justin, could you try the tip/master tree (which has this fix included):

  http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README

does Firefox still work fine?

	Ingo

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>From 779c9b9f8cb87cdfbd299ee7beb62e50ce139a92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:31:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "x86: signal: change type of paramter for sys_rt_sigreturn()"

This reverts commit 4217458dafaa57d8e26a46f5d05ab8c53cf64191.

Justin Madru bisected this commit, it was causing weird Firefox
crashes.

The reason is that GCC mis-optimizes (re-uses) the on-stack parameters of
the calling frame, which corrupts the syscall return pt_regs state and
thus corrupts user-space register state.

So we go back to the slightly less clean but more optimization-safe
method of getting to pt_regs. Also add a comment to explain this.

Resolves: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12505

Reported-and-bisected-by: Justin Madru <jdm64@gawab.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h |    2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c        |   11 +++++++++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h
index 9c6797c..c0b0bda 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ asmlinkage int sys_sigaction(int, const struct old_sigaction __user *,
 			     struct old_sigaction __user *);
 asmlinkage int sys_sigaltstack(unsigned long);
 asmlinkage unsigned long sys_sigreturn(unsigned long);
-asmlinkage int sys_rt_sigreturn(struct pt_regs);
+asmlinkage int sys_rt_sigreturn(unsigned long);
 
 /* kernel/ioport.c */
 asmlinkage long sys_iopl(unsigned long);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
index 89bb766..df0587f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
@@ -632,9 +632,16 @@ badframe:
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-asmlinkage int sys_rt_sigreturn(struct pt_regs regs)
+/*
+ * Note: do not pass in pt_regs directly as with tail-call optimization
+ * GCC will incorrectly stomp on the caller's frame and corrupt user-space
+ * register state:
+ */
+asmlinkage int sys_rt_sigreturn(unsigned long __unused)
 {
-	return do_rt_sigreturn(&regs);
+	struct pt_regs *regs = (struct pt_regs *)&__unused;
+
+	return do_rt_sigreturn(regs);
 }
 #else /* !CONFIG_X86_32 */
 asmlinkage long sys_rt_sigreturn(struct pt_regs *regs)