2.6.28-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Josh Boyer This has been backported to 2.6.28.x from commit efbda86098 in Linus' tree On powerpc64 machines running 32-bit userspace, we can get garbage bits in the stack pointer passed into the kernel. Most places handle this correctly, but the signal handling code uses the passed value directly for allocating signal stack frames. This fixes the issue by introducing a get_clean_sp function that returns a sanitized stack pointer. For 32-bit tasks on a 64-bit kernel, the stack pointer is masked correctly. In all other cases, the stack pointer is simply returned. Additionally, we pass an 'is_32' parameter to get_sigframe now in order to get the properly sanitized stack. The callers are know to be 32 or 64-bit statically. Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c | 4 ++-- arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.h | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c | 4 ++-- arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c | 2 +- 5 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h @@ -309,6 +309,25 @@ static inline void prefetchw(const void #define HAVE_ARCH_PICK_MMAP_LAYOUT #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 +static inline unsigned long get_clean_sp(struct pt_regs *regs, int is_32) +{ + unsigned long sp; + + if (is_32) + sp = regs->gpr[1] & 0x0ffffffffUL; + else + sp = regs->gpr[1]; + + return sp; +} +#else +static inline unsigned long get_clean_sp(struct pt_regs *regs, int is_32) +{ + return regs->gpr[1]; +} +#endif + #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */ #endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_PROCESSOR_H */ --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c @@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ int handle_rt_signal32(unsigned long sig /* Set up Signal Frame */ /* Put a Real Time Context onto stack */ - rt_sf = get_sigframe(ka, regs, sizeof(*rt_sf)); + rt_sf = get_sigframe(ka, regs, sizeof(*rt_sf), 1); addr = rt_sf; if (unlikely(rt_sf == NULL)) goto badframe; @@ -1182,7 +1182,7 @@ int handle_signal32(unsigned long sig, s unsigned long newsp = 0; /* Set up Signal Frame */ - frame = get_sigframe(ka, regs, sizeof(*frame)); + frame = get_sigframe(ka, regs, sizeof(*frame), 1); if (unlikely(frame == NULL)) goto badframe; sc = (struct sigcontext __user *) &frame->sctx; --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ int handle_rt_signal64(int signr, struct unsigned long newsp = 0; long err = 0; - frame = get_sigframe(ka, regs, sizeof(*frame)); + frame = get_sigframe(ka, regs, sizeof(*frame), 0); if (unlikely(frame == NULL)) goto badframe; --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c @@ -26,12 +26,12 @@ int show_unhandled_signals = 0; * Allocate space for the signal frame */ void __user * get_sigframe(struct k_sigaction *ka, struct pt_regs *regs, - size_t frame_size) + size_t frame_size, int is_32) { unsigned long oldsp, newsp; /* Default to using normal stack */ - oldsp = regs->gpr[1]; + oldsp = get_clean_sp(regs, is_32); /* Check for alt stack */ if ((ka->sa.sa_flags & SA_ONSTACK) && --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.h @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ extern void do_signal(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long thread_info_flags); extern void __user * get_sigframe(struct k_sigaction *ka, struct pt_regs *regs, - size_t frame_size); + size_t frame_size, int is_32); extern void restore_sigmask(sigset_t *set); extern int handle_signal32(unsigned long sig, struct k_sigaction *ka, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/