Minki/linux
1
0
Fork 1
mirror of https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git synced 2024-11-14 16:12:02 +00:00
Code Issues Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

powerpc: Fix bad stack check in exception entry

Browse Source 
In EXCEPTION_PROLOG_COMMON() we check to see if the stack pointer (r1)
is valid when coming from the kernel.  If it's not valid, we die but
with a nice oops message.

Currently we allocate a stack frame (subtract INT_FRAME_SIZE) before we
check to see if the stack pointer is negative.  Unfortunately, this
won't detect a bad stack where r1 is less than INT_FRAME_SIZE.

This patch fixes the check to compare the modified r1 with
-INT_FRAME_SIZE.  With this, bad kernel stack pointers (including NULL
pointers) are correctly detected again.

Kudos to Paulus for finding this.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This commit is contained in:
Michael Neuling 2013-12-16 15:12:43 +11:00 committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
parent 803c2d2f84
commit 90ff5d688e
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

2
arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h
View File

@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ do_kvm_##n: \
subi r1,r1,INT_FRAME_SIZE; /* alloc frame on kernel stack */ \
beq- 1f; \
ld r1,PACAKSAVE(r13); /* kernel stack to use */ \
1: cmpdi cr1,r1,0; /* check if r1 is in userspace */ \
1: cmpdi cr1,r1,-INT_FRAME_SIZE; /* check if r1 is in userspace */ \
blt+ cr1,3f; /* abort if it is */ \
li r1,(n); /* will be reloaded later */ \
sth r1,PACA_TRAP_SAVE(r13); \