linux/arch
David Vrabel cf32a3a3e7 xen/x86: don't corrupt %eip when returning from a signal handler
commit a349e23d1c upstream.

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 and avoids some of the tests in
handle_signal().

There were similar bugs in xen_failsafe_callback() of both 32 and
64-bit guests. If the fault was corrected and the normal return path
was used then 0 was incorrectly pushed as the value for orig_ax.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-28 10:14:13 -07:00
..
alpha alpha: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop 2012-10-13 05:38:54 +09:00
arm ARM: 7541/1: Add ARM ERRATA 775420 workaround 2012-10-21 09:27:58 -07:00
avr32 avr32: fix nop compile fails from system.h split up 2012-04-04 08:23:44 -07:00
blackfin blackfin: fix ifdef fustercluck in mach-bf538/boards/ezkit.c 2012-04-26 14:46:51 -04:00
c6x irq: Kill pointless irqd_to_hw export 2012-04-10 22:39:17 -06:00
cris cris: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop 2012-10-13 05:38:54 +09:00
frv frv: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop 2012-10-13 05:38:54 +09:00
h8300 h8300: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop 2012-10-13 05:38:53 +09:00
hexagon hexagon: add missing cpu.h include 2012-04-23 12:57:24 -05:00
ia64 ia64: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop 2012-10-13 05:38:53 +09:00
m32r m32r: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop 2012-10-13 05:38:55 +09:00
m68k m68k: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop 2012-10-13 05:38:54 +09:00
microblaze microblaze: Do not select GENERIC_GPIO by default 2012-06-10 00:36:05 +09:00
mips mips,kgdb: fix recursive page fault with CONFIG_KPROBES 2012-10-21 09:27:57 -07:00
mn10300 mn10300: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop 2012-10-13 05:38:54 +09:00
openrisc Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h 2012-03-28 15:58:21 -07:00
parisc parisc: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop 2012-10-13 05:38:53 +09:00
powerpc powerpc/eeh: Fix crash on converting OF node to edev 2012-10-13 05:38:39 +09:00
s390 s390: fix linker script for 31 bit builds 2012-10-28 10:14:13 -07:00
score score: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop 2012-10-13 05:38:55 +09:00
sh sh: Fix up tracepoint build fallout from static key introduction. 2012-04-27 11:12:38 +09:30
sparc KEYS: Use the compat keyctl() syscall wrapper on Sparc64 for Sparc32 compat 2012-06-01 15:18:16 +08:00
tile arch/tile: avoid generating .eh_frame information in modules 2012-10-28 10:14:12 -07:00
um um: Implement a custom pte_same() function 2012-06-01 15:18:18 +08:00
unicore32 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping 2012-04-04 17:13:43 -07:00
x86 xen/x86: don't corrupt %eip when returning from a signal handler 2012-10-28 10:14:13 -07:00
xtensa xtensa: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop 2012-10-13 05:38:54 +09:00
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Kconfig Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2012-03-29 14:49:45 -07:00