Patch "MIPS: Avoid using unwind_stack() with usermode" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    MIPS: Avoid using unwind_stack() with usermode

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     mips-avoid-using-unwind_stack-with-usermode.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 81a76d7119f63c359750e4adeff922a31ad1135f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 22:25:02 +0000
Subject: MIPS: Avoid using unwind_stack() with usermode

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

commit 81a76d7119f63c359750e4adeff922a31ad1135f upstream.

When showing backtraces in response to traps, for example crashes and
address errors (usually unaligned accesses) when they are set in debugfs
to be reported, unwind_stack will be used if the PC was in the kernel
text address range. However since EVA it is possible for user and kernel
address ranges to overlap, and even without EVA userland can still
trigger an address error by jumping to a KSeg0 address.

Adjust the check to also ensure that it was running in kernel mode. I
don't believe any harm can come of this problem, since unwind_stack() is
sufficiently defensive, however it is only meant for unwinding kernel
code, so to be correct it should use the raw backtracing instead.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Reviewed-by: Leonid Yegoshin <Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11701/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
(cherry picked from commit d2941a975ac745c607dfb590e92bb30bc352dad9)
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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

--- a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ static void show_backtrace(struct task_s
 	if (!task)
 		task = current;
 
-	if (raw_show_trace || !__kernel_text_address(pc)) {
+	if (raw_show_trace || user_mode(regs) || !__kernel_text_address(pc)) {
 		show_raw_backtrace(sp);
 		return;
 	}


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from james.hogan@imgtec.com are

queue-4.4/mips64-r6-r2-emulation-bugfix.patch
queue-4.4/mips-fix-uapi-include-in-exported-asm-siginfo.h.patch
queue-4.4/mips-disable-preemption-during-prctl-pr_set_fp_mode.patch
queue-4.4/mips-fix-sigreturn-via-vdso-on-micromips-kernel.patch
queue-4.4/mips-fix-siginfo.h-to-use-strict-posix-types.patch
queue-4.4/mips-don-t-unwind-to-user-mode-with-eva.patch
queue-4.4/mips-vdso-build-with-fno-strict-aliasing.patch
queue-4.4/mips-fix-watchpoint-restoration.patch
queue-4.4/mips-build-micromips-vdso-for-micromips-kernels.patch
queue-4.4/mips-math-emu-fix-jalr-emulation-when-rd-0.patch
queue-4.4/mips-fix-msa-ld_-st_-asm-macros-to-use-ptr_addu.patch
queue-4.4/mips-avoid-using-unwind_stack-with-usermode.patch
queue-4.4/mips-prevent-restoration-of-msa-context-in-non-msa-kernels.patch
queue-4.4/mips-use-copy_s.fmt-rather-than-copy_u.fmt.patch