linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.8 122/166] powerpc: Fix bad stack check in exception entry

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Message-Id: <1389822780-4729-123-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:52:16 -0800
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.8 122/166] powerpc: Fix bad stack check in exception entry

3.8.13.16 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>

commit 90ff5d688e61f49f23545ffab6228bd7e87e6dc7 upstream.

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@...ling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h
index 88e0825..7d8f88e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ 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);					   \
-- 
1.8.3.2

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