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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio@citrix.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCHv2] xen/x86: don't corrupt %eip when returning from a signal handler
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:29:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1350480580-4844-1-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com> (raw)

From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>

In 32 bit guests, if a userspace process has %eax == -ERESTARTSYS
(-512) or -ERESTARTNOINTR (-513) when it is interrupted by an event
/and/ the process has a pending signal then %eip (and %eax) are
corrupted when returning to the main process after handling the
signal.  The application may then crash with SIGSEGV or a SIGILL or it
may have subtly incorrect behaviour (depending on what instruction it
returned to).

The occurs because handle_signal() is incorrectly thinking that there
is a system call that needs to restarted so it adjusts %eip and %eax
to re-execute the system call instruction (even though user space had
not done a system call).

If %eax == -514 (-ERESTARTNOHAND (-514) or -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK
(-516) then handle_signal() only corrupted %eax (by setting it to
-EINTR).  This may cause the application to crash or have incorrect
behaviour.

handle_signal() assumes that regs->orig_ax >= 0 means a system call so
any kernel entry point that is not for a system call must push a
negative value for orig_ax.  For example, for physical interrupts on
bare metal the inverse of the vector is pushed and page_fault() sets
regs->orig_ax to -1, overwriting the hardware provided error code.

xen_hypervisor_callback() was incorrectly pushing 0 for orig_ax
instead of -1.

Classic Xen kernels pushed %eax which works as %eax cannot be both
non-negative and -RESTARTSYS (etc.), but using -1 is consistent with
other non-system call entry points.

There were similar bugs in xen_failsafe_callback(), if the fault was
corrected and normal return path was used.  64 bit guests would push 0
which is broken.  32 bit guests would push %eax which is safe (see
previous paragraph), but for consistency this is also changed to -1.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
 arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S |    4 ++--
 arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
index 2c63407..6a19e66 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
@@ -1042,7 +1042,7 @@ ENTRY(xen_sysenter_target)
 
 ENTRY(xen_hypervisor_callback)
 	CFI_STARTPROC
-	pushl_cfi $0
+	pushl_cfi $-1 /* orig_ax = -1 => not a system call */
 	SAVE_ALL
 	TRACE_IRQS_OFF
 
@@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@ ENDPROC(xen_hypervisor_callback)
 # We distinguish between categories by maintaining a status value in EAX.
 ENTRY(xen_failsafe_callback)
 	CFI_STARTPROC
-	pushl_cfi %eax
+	pushl_cfi $-1  /* orig_ax = -1 => not a system call */
 	movl $1,%eax
 1:	mov 4(%esp),%ds
 2:	mov 8(%esp),%es
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
index cdc790c..430b1fc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -1451,7 +1451,7 @@ ENTRY(xen_failsafe_callback)
 	CFI_RESTORE r11
 	addq $0x30,%rsp
 	CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET -0x30
-	pushq_cfi $0
+	pushq_cfi $-1 /* orig_ax = -1 => not a system call */
 	SAVE_ALL
 	jmp error_exit
 	CFI_ENDPROC
-- 
1.7.2.5

             reply	other threads:[~2012-10-17 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-17 13:29 David Vrabel [this message]
2012-10-17 15:02 ` [PATCHv2] xen/x86: don't corrupt %eip when returning from a signal handler Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-10-19 15:29 ` Jan Beulich
2012-10-19 15:44   ` David Vrabel
2012-10-19 16:03     ` Jan Beulich

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