2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Jan Beulich commit 81766741fe1eee3884219e8daaf03f466f2ed52f upstream. Restoring %ebp after the call to audit_syscall_exit() is not only unnecessary (because the register didn't get clobbered), but in the sysenter case wasn't even doing the right thing: It loaded %ebp from a location below the top of stack (RBP < ARGOFFSET), i.e. arbitrary kernel data got passed back to user mode in the register. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Acked-by: Roland McGrath LKML-Reference: <4AE5CC4D020000780001BD13@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S +++ b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ sysexit_from_sys_call: movl RDI-ARGOFFSET(%rsp),%r8d /* reload 5th syscall arg */ .endm - .macro auditsys_exit exit,ebpsave=RBP + .macro auditsys_exit exit testl $(_TIF_ALLWORK_MASK & ~_TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT),TI_flags(%r10) jnz ia32_ret_from_sys_call TRACE_IRQS_ON @@ -217,7 +217,6 @@ sysexit_from_sys_call: call audit_syscall_exit GET_THREAD_INFO(%r10) movl RAX-ARGOFFSET(%rsp),%eax /* reload syscall return value */ - movl \ebpsave-ARGOFFSET(%rsp),%ebp /* reload user register value */ movl $(_TIF_ALLWORK_MASK & ~_TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT),%edi cli TRACE_IRQS_OFF @@ -351,7 +350,7 @@ cstar_auditsys: jmp cstar_dispatch sysretl_audit: - auditsys_exit sysretl_from_sys_call, RCX /* user %ebp in RCX slot */ + auditsys_exit sysretl_from_sys_call #endif cstar_tracesys: -- 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/