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* Re:[PATCH] Fix Warnining in arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
@ 2009-05-14  6:30 Subrata Modak
  2009-05-14  7:38 ` [PATCH] " Hiroshi Shimamoto
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Subrata Modak @ 2009-05-14  6:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Hiroshi Shimamoto
  Cc: H. Peter Anvin, Balbir Singh, Andi Kleen, Ingo Molnar, x86,
	Linux Kernel, Thomas Gleixner, Sachin P Sant, Subrata Modak,
	Andi Kleen, Ingo Molnar

Hello Hiroshi-san,

On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 09:24 +0900, Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote:
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >>>>>  
> >>>>>  	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, frame, sizeof(*frame)))
> >>>>>  		goto badframe;
> >>>>> -	if (__get_user(set.sig[0], &frame->sc.oldmask) || (_NSIG_WORDS > 1
> >>>>> -		&& __copy_from_user(&set.sig[1], &frame->extramask,
> >>>>> -				    sizeof(frame->extramask))))
> >>>>> +
> >>>>> +        if ( (__copy_from_user(&set.sig[1], &frame->extramask,
> >>>>> +                sizeof(frame->extramask)) && _NSIG_WORDS > 1) || 
> >>>>> +                __get_user(set.sig[0], &frame->sc.oldmask))
> >>>>>  		goto badframe;
> >>>> I'm not sure why this eliminates that warning.
> >>>> set.sig[0] may not be initialized too, if __copy_from_user() failed.
> >>> True, but only when either or both of __copy_from_user() and
> >>> (_NSIG_WORDS > 1) fails. But in all instances set.sig[1] gets
> >>> initialized.
> >>>
> >>>> I don't have enough time to look at this right now, sorry.
> >>>>
> >>>> Another question, __copy_from_user() will be called even if
> >>>> _NSIG_WORDS is less than 2, perhaps it never occurs.
> >>>> I think, to check _NSIG_WORDS > 1 before calling __copy_from_user()
> >>>> is better.
> >>> Fine. Let Ingo/Thomas/Peter decide whether they would like this fix or
> >>> drop it.
> >> If you get the Acked-by from Hiroshi-san it looks good to me. He 
> >> modified this code last.
> >>
> > 
> > This seriously looks wrong to me.  If _NSIG_WORDS == 1, then calling
> > __copy_from_user here is a serious error.
> 
> Right. If _NSIG_WORDS is 1, sigset_t set has only sig[0], writing to
> set.sig[1] means stack corruption.
> 
> Subrata, could you try like this?
> if ((_NSIG_WORDS > 1 && __copy_from_user(&set.sig[1], ...) ||
> 	__get_user(set.sig[0], ...))
> 
> 

I tried out and the compiler does not complain in this case.
Updated Patch below. Please review.

Signed-Off-By: Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>,
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Cc: x86@kernel.org,
Cc: Sachin P Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re:[PATCH] Fix Warnining in arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
---

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c	2009-05-14 11:27:15.000000000 +0530
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c	2009-05-14 11:50:52.000000000 +0530
@@ -576,9 +576,9 @@ unsigned long sys_sigreturn(struct pt_re
 
 	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, frame, sizeof(*frame)))
 		goto badframe;
-	if (__get_user(set.sig[0], &frame->sc.oldmask) || (_NSIG_WORDS > 1
-		&& __copy_from_user(&set.sig[1], &frame->extramask,
-				    sizeof(frame->extramask))))
+	if ( (_NSIG_WORDS > 1 && __copy_from_user(&set.sig[1],
+               &frame->extramask, sizeof(frame->extramask))) ||
+               __get_user(set.sig[0], &frame->sc.oldmask))
 		goto badframe;
 
 	sigdelsetmask(&set, ~_BLOCKABLE);

---
Regards--
Subrata

> I wonder whether gcc really complains about the case of
> __get_user(set.sig[0], ...) failure.
> Why, the case which sig[0] initialized and sig[1] uninitialized is NG
> and the case which sig[0] uninitialized and sig[1] initialized is OK.
> 
> Thanks,
> Hiroshi

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 13+ messages in thread
* Re:[PATCH] Fix Warnining in arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
@ 2009-05-14  9:12 Subrata Modak
  2009-05-15  2:57 ` [PATCH] " Hiroshi Shimamoto
  2009-05-15  3:32 ` Hiroshi Shimamoto
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Subrata Modak @ 2009-05-14  9:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Hiroshi Shimamoto
  Cc: H. Peter Anvin, Balbir Singh, Andi Kleen, Ingo Molnar, x86,
	Linux Kernel, Thomas Gleixner, Sachin P Sant, Subrata Modak,
	Andi Kleen, Ingo Molnar

Hello Hiroshi-san,

On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 09:24 +0900, Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote:
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >>>>>  
> >>>>>         if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, frame, sizeof(*frame)))
> >>>>>                 goto badframe;
> >>>>> -       if (__get_user(set.sig[0], &frame->sc.oldmask) || (_NSIG_WORDS > 1
> >>>>> -               && __copy_from_user(&set.sig[1], &frame->extramask,
> >>>>> -                                   sizeof(frame->extramask))))
> >>>>> +
> >>>>> +        if ( (__copy_from_user(&set.sig[1], &frame->extramask,
> >>>>> +                sizeof(frame->extramask)) && _NSIG_WORDS > 1) || 
> >>>>> +                __get_user(set.sig[0], &frame->sc.oldmask))
> >>>>>                 goto badframe;
> >>>> I'm not sure why this eliminates that warning.
> >>>> set.sig[0] may not be initialized too, if __copy_from_user() failed.
> >>> True, but only when either or both of __copy_from_user() and
> >>> (_NSIG_WORDS > 1) fails. But in all instances set.sig[1] gets
> >>> initialized.
> >>>
> >>>> I don't have enough time to look at this right now, sorry.
> >>>>
> >>>> Another question, __copy_from_user() will be called even if
> >>>> _NSIG_WORDS is less than 2, perhaps it never occurs.
> >>>> I think, to check _NSIG_WORDS > 1 before calling __copy_from_user()
> >>>> is better.
> >>> Fine. Let Ingo/Thomas/Peter decide whether they would like this fix or
> >>> drop it.
> >> If you get the Acked-by from Hiroshi-san it looks good to me. He 
> >> modified this code last.
> >>
> > 
> > This seriously looks wrong to me.  If _NSIG_WORDS == 1, then calling
> > __copy_from_user here is a serious error.
> 
> Right. If _NSIG_WORDS is 1, sigset_t set has only sig[0], writing to
> set.sig[1] means stack corruption.
> 
> Subrata, could you try like this?
> if ((_NSIG_WORDS > 1 && __copy_from_user(&set.sig[1], ...) ||
>       __get_user(set.sig[0], ...))
> 
> 

How about now ? Thanks for pointing that out. My mistake ;-)

Signed-off-by: Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>,
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Cc: x86@kernel.org,
Cc: Sachin P Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re:[PATCH] Fix Warnining in arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
---

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c	2009-05-14 11:27:15.000000000 +0530
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c	2009-05-14 14:36:24.000000000 +0530
@@ -576,9 +576,9 @@ unsigned long sys_sigreturn(struct pt_re
 
 	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, frame, sizeof(*frame)))
 		goto badframe;
-	if (__get_user(set.sig[0], &frame->sc.oldmask) || (_NSIG_WORDS > 1
-		&& __copy_from_user(&set.sig[1], &frame->extramask,
-				    sizeof(frame->extramask))))
+	if ((_NSIG_WORDS > 1 && __copy_from_user(&set.sig[1],
+		&frame->extramask, sizeof(frame->extramask))) ||
+		__get_user(set.sig[0], &frame->sc.oldmask))
 		goto badframe;
 
 	sigdelsetmask(&set, ~_BLOCKABLE);

---
Regards--
Subrata

> I wonder whether gcc really complains about the case of
> __get_user(set.sig[0], ...) failure.
> Why, the case which sig[0] initialized and sig[1] uninitialized is NG
> and the case which sig[0] uninitialized and sig[1] initialized is OK.
> 
> Thanks,
> Hiroshi

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* [PATCH] Fix Warnining in arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
@ 2009-05-12 15:56 Subrata Modak
  2009-05-13  2:20 ` Hiroshi Shimamoto
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Subrata Modak @ 2009-05-12 15:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: x86
  Cc: Sachin P Sant, Andi Kleen, Andi Kleen, Linux Kernel,
	Subrata Modak, Balbir Singh

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Hi,

>On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 17:16 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 05:16:14PM +0530, Subrata Modak wrote:
> 
> Hi Subrata,
> 
> > 
> > With gcc (GCC) 4.4.1 20090429 (prerelease), i get the following build warning:
> 
> Patch looks good (you can add a 
> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>)
> But I don't maintain this code anymore. Please resend to x86@kernel.org
> cc linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org for merge.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Andi


With gcc (GCC) 4.4.1 20090429 (prerelease), i get the following build warning:

CC      arch/x86/kernel/signal.o
arch/x86/kernel/signal.c: In function ‘sys_sigreturn’:
arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:573: warning: ‘set.sig[1]’ may be used uninitialized in this function

On investigation i found that this is because of the evaluation
precedence of the expression below:

569 unsigned long sys_sigreturn(struct pt_regs *regs)
570 {
571         struct sigframe __user *frame;
572         unsigned long ax;
573         sigset_t set;
574 
575         frame = (struct sigframe __user *)(regs->sp - 8);
576 
577         if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, frame, sizeof(*frame)))
578                 goto badframe;
579         if (__get_user(set.sig[0], &frame->sc.oldmask) || (_NSIG_WORDS > 1
580                 && __copy_from_user(&set.sig[1], &frame->extramask,
581                                     sizeof(frame->extramask))))

The initialization for set.sig[1] may not occur if
	__get_user(set.sig[0], &frame->sc.oldmask)
evalutes to true. So, the compiler is complaining.

I have devised a small patch for this which wanes away this warning
without changing the conditional evaluation criteria. Let me know if
you like this patch.

582                 goto badframe;
583 
584         sigdelsetmask(&set, ~_BLOCKABLE);
585         spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
586         current->blocked = set;
587         recalc_sigpending();
588         spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
589 
590         if (restore_sigcontext(regs, &frame->sc, &ax))
591                 goto badframe;
592         return ax;
593 
594 badframe:
595         signal_fault(regs, frame, "sigreturn");
596 
597         return 0;
598 }

Signed-Off-By: Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sachin P Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Fix Warnining in arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
---

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c	2009-05-12 10:59:24.000000000 +0530
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c	2009-05-12 16:57:32.000000000 +0530
@@ -576,9 +576,10 @@ unsigned long sys_sigreturn(struct pt_re
 
 	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, frame, sizeof(*frame)))
 		goto badframe;
-	if (__get_user(set.sig[0], &frame->sc.oldmask) || (_NSIG_WORDS > 1
-		&& __copy_from_user(&set.sig[1], &frame->extramask,
-				    sizeof(frame->extramask))))
+
+        if ( (__copy_from_user(&set.sig[1], &frame->extramask,
+                sizeof(frame->extramask)) && _NSIG_WORDS > 1) || 
+                __get_user(set.sig[0], &frame->sc.oldmask))
 		goto badframe;
 
 	sigdelsetmask(&set, ~_BLOCKABLE);

---
Regards--
Subrata


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