linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 17/58] ARC: entry: fix potential EFA clobber when TIF_SYSCALL

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Date:   Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:36:33 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 17/58] ARC: entry: fix potential EFA clobber when TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE

From: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>

commit 00fdec98d9881bf5173af09aebd353ab3b9ac729 upstream.

Trap handler for syscall tracing reads EFA (Exception Fault Address),
in case strace wants PC of trap instruction (EFA is not part of pt_regs
as of current code).

However this EFA read is racy as it happens after dropping to pure
kernel mode (re-enabling interrupts). A taken interrupt could
context-switch, trigger a different task's trap, clobbering EFA for this
execution context.

Fix this by reading EFA early, before re-enabling interrupts. A slight
side benefit is de-duplication of FAKE_RET_FROM_EXCPN in trap handler.
The trap handler is common to both ARCompact and ARCv2 builds too.

This just came out of code rework/review and no real problem was reported
but is clearly a potential problem specially for strace.

Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/arc/kernel/entry.S |   16 +++++-----------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arc/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/entry.S
@@ -168,7 +168,6 @@ END(EV_Extension)
 tracesys:
 	; save EFA in case tracer wants the PC of traced task
 	; using ERET won't work since next-PC has already committed
-	lr  r12, [efa]
 	GET_CURR_TASK_FIELD_PTR   TASK_THREAD, r11
 	st  r12, [r11, THREAD_FAULT_ADDR]	; thread.fault_address
 
@@ -211,15 +210,9 @@ tracesys_exit:
 ; Breakpoint TRAP
 ; ---------------------------------------------
 trap_with_param:
-
-	; stop_pc info by gdb needs this info
-	lr  r0, [efa]
+	mov r0, r12	; EFA in case ptracer/gdb wants stop_pc
 	mov r1, sp
 
-	; Now that we have read EFA, it is safe to do "fake" rtie
-	;   and get out of CPU exception mode
-	FAKE_RET_FROM_EXCPN
-
 	; Save callee regs in case gdb wants to have a look
 	; SP will grow up by size of CALLEE Reg-File
 	; NOTE: clobbers r12
@@ -246,6 +239,10 @@ ENTRY(EV_Trap)
 
 	EXCEPTION_PROLOGUE
 
+	lr  r12, [efa]
+
+	FAKE_RET_FROM_EXCPN
+
 	;============ TRAP 1   :breakpoints
 	; Check ECR for trap with arg (PROLOGUE ensures r9 has ECR)
 	bmsk.f 0, r9, 7
@@ -253,9 +250,6 @@ ENTRY(EV_Trap)
 
 	;============ TRAP  (no param): syscall top level
 
-	; First return from Exception to pure K mode (Exception/IRQs renabled)
-	FAKE_RET_FROM_EXCPN
-
 	; If syscall tracing ongoing, invoke pre-post-hooks
 	GET_CURR_THR_INFO_FLAGS   r10
 	btst r10, TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE