linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] signal: Introduce COMPAT_SIGMINSTKSZ for use in compat_sys

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Message-ID: <20180726104456.GT4240@e103592.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:   Thu, 26 Jul 2018 11:44:58 +0100
From:   Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>
To:     Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:     arnd@...db.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux@...inikbrodowski.net, oleg@...hat.com,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        steve.mcintyre@....com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] signal: Introduce COMPAT_SIGMINSTKSZ for use in
 compat_sys_sigaltstack

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 05:37:26PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 04:54:27PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 02:45:11PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > @@ -3476,7 +3478,8 @@ int restore_altstack(const stack_t __user *uss)
> > >  	stack_t new;
> > >  	if (copy_from_user(&new, uss, sizeof(stack_t)))
> > >  		return -EFAULT;
> > > -	(void)do_sigaltstack(&new, NULL, current_user_stack_pointer());
> > > +	(void)do_sigaltstack(&new, NULL, current_user_stack_pointer(),
> > > +			     MINSIGSTKSZ);
> > 
> > Why can't this fail?
> > 
> > If this fails here we silently go wrong, but...
> > 
> > >  	/* squash all but EFAULT for now */
> > >  	return 0;
> > >  }
> > > @@ -3510,7 +3513,8 @@ static int do_compat_sigaltstack(const compat_stack_t __user *uss_ptr,
> > >  		uss.ss_size = uss32.ss_size;
> > >  	}
> > >  	ret = do_sigaltstack(uss_ptr ? &uss : NULL, &uoss,
> > > -			     compat_user_stack_pointer());
> > > +			     compat_user_stack_pointer(),
> > > +			     COMPAT_MINSIGSTKSZ);
> > 
> > If this fails on arm64, we seem to SEGV (see compat_sys_rt_sigreturn()).
> > 
> > This patch doesn't introduce this inconsistency, this might be a good
> > opportunity to clean it up.
> 
> I don't think there's an inconsistency here -- both restore_altstack and
> compat_restore_altstack suppress all non--EFAULT errors (remember that uoss
> is NULL in both cases, so the copy_from_user() immediately before the
> do_sigaltstack() call for the native path is all we care about). I think the
> behaviour is: on a sigreturn, if you set the altstack to be an unmapped
> address then you get a SEGV, otherwise if you make it invalid in some other
> way (e.g. too small) then it's ignored and the old altstack remains intact.

OK, I think I've satisfied myself that they do the same thing for now.

The code for the paths is a bit different, so it's not trivial to see
that they have the same effect...

Cheers
---Dave