Patch "x86/entry: Use SYSCALL_DEFINE() macros for sys_modify_ldt()" 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

    x86/entry: Use SYSCALL_DEFINE() macros for sys_modify_ldt()

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:
     x86-entry-use-syscall_define-macros-for-sys_modify_ldt.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 foo@baz Wed Dec  6 16:43:17 CET 2017
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:21:07 -0700
Subject: x86/entry: Use SYSCALL_DEFINE() macros for sys_modify_ldt()

From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>


[ Upstream commit da20ab35180780e4a6eadc804544f1fa967f3567 ]

We do not have tracepoints for sys_modify_ldt() because we define
it directly instead of using the normal SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros.

However, there is a reason sys_modify_ldt() does not use the macros:
it has an 'int' return type instead of 'unsigned long'.  This is
a bug, but it's a bug cemented in the ABI.

What does this mean?  If we return -EINVAL from a function that
returns 'int', we have 0x00000000ffffffea in %rax.  But, if we
return -EINVAL from a function returning 'unsigned long', we end
up with 0xffffffffffffffea in %rax, which is wrong.

To work around this and maintain the 'int' behavior while using
the SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros, so we add a cast to 'unsigned int'
in both implementations of sys_modify_ldt().

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018172107.1A79C532@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h |    2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c           |   16 +++++++++++++---
 arch/x86/um/ldt.c               |    7 +++++--
 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ioperm(unsigned long
 asmlinkage long sys_iopl(unsigned int);
 
 /* kernel/ldt.c */
-asmlinkage int sys_modify_ldt(int, void __user *, unsigned long);
+asmlinkage long sys_modify_ldt(int, void __user *, unsigned long);
 
 /* kernel/signal.c */
 asmlinkage long sys_rt_sigreturn(void);
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/smp.h>
+#include <linux/syscalls.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
@@ -271,8 +272,8 @@ out:
 	return error;
 }
 
-asmlinkage int sys_modify_ldt(int func, void __user *ptr,
-			      unsigned long bytecount)
+SYSCALL_DEFINE3(modify_ldt, int , func , void __user * , ptr ,
+		unsigned long , bytecount)
 {
 	int ret = -ENOSYS;
 
@@ -290,5 +291,14 @@ asmlinkage int sys_modify_ldt(int func,
 		ret = write_ldt(ptr, bytecount, 0);
 		break;
 	}
-	return ret;
+	/*
+	 * The SYSCALL_DEFINE() macros give us an 'unsigned long'
+	 * return type, but tht ABI for sys_modify_ldt() expects
+	 * 'int'.  This cast gives us an int-sized value in %rax
+	 * for the return code.  The 'unsigned' is necessary so
+	 * the compiler does not try to sign-extend the negative
+	 * return codes into the high half of the register when
+	 * taking the value from int->long.
+	 */
+	return (unsigned int)ret;
 }
--- a/arch/x86/um/ldt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/um/ldt.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/syscalls.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/unistd.h>
 #include <os.h>
@@ -369,7 +370,9 @@ void free_ldt(struct mm_context *mm)
 	mm->arch.ldt.entry_count = 0;
 }
 
-int sys_modify_ldt(int func, void __user *ptr, unsigned long bytecount)
+SYSCALL_DEFINE3(modify_ldt, int , func , void __user * , ptr ,
+		unsigned long , bytecount)
 {
-	return do_modify_ldt_skas(func, ptr, bytecount);
+	/* See non-um modify_ldt() for why we do this cast */
+	return (unsigned int)do_modify_ldt_skas(func, ptr, bytecount);
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dave.hansen@linux.intel.com are

queue-4.4/x86-entry-use-syscall_define-macros-for-sys_modify_ldt.patch