[PATCH 3.16 108/254] MIPS: Guard against any partial write attempt with PTRACE_SETREGSET

Ben Hutchings
2018-02-28T16:12:07Z

From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@mips.com>

commit dc24d0edf33c3e15099688b6bbdf7bdc24bf6e91 upstream.

Complement commit d614fd58a283 ("mips/ptrace: Preserve previous
registers for short regset write") and ensure that no partial register
write attempt is made with PTRACE_SETREGSET, as we do not preinitialize
any temporaries used to hold incoming register data and consequently
random data could be written.

It is the responsibility of the caller, such as `ptrace_regset', to
arrange for writes to span whole registers only, so here we only assert
that it has indeed happened.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@mips.com>
Fixes: 72b22bbad1e7 ("MIPS: Don't assume 64-bit FP registers for FP regset")
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@mips.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <Paul.Burton@mips.com>
Cc: Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>
Cc: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17926/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -535,7 +535,15 @@ static int fpr_set_msa(struct task_struc
return 0;
}

-/* Copy the supplied NT_PRFPREG buffer to the floating-point context. */
+/*
+ * Copy the supplied NT_PRFPREG buffer to the floating-point context.
+ *
+ * We optimize for the case where `count % sizeof(elf_fpreg_t) == 0',
+ * which is supposed to have been guaranteed by the kernel before
+ * calling us, e.g. in `ptrace_regset'. We enforce that requirement,
+ * so that we can safely avoid preinitializing temporaries for
+ * partial register writes.
+ */
static int fpr_set(struct task_struct *target,
const struct user_regset *regset,
unsigned int pos, unsigned int count,
@@ -543,6 +551,8 @@ static int fpr_set(struct task_struct *t
{
int err;

+ BUG_ON(count % sizeof(elf_fpreg_t));
+
/* XXX fcr31 */

init_fp_ctx(target);