This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
MIPS: Don't unwind to user mode with EVA
to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel/linux/+git/linux-stable-ckt/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt23.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Kamal
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From: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 22:25:01 +0000
Subject: MIPS: Don't unwind to user mode with EVA
commit a816b306c62195b7c43c92cb13330821a96bdc27 upstream.
When unwinding through IRQs and exceptions, the unwinding only continues
if the PC is a kernel text address, however since EVA it is possible for
user and kernel address ranges to overlap, potentially allowing
unwinding to continue to user mode if the user PC happens to be in the
kernel text address range.
Adjust the check to also ensure that the register state from before the
exception is actually running in kernel mode, i.e. !user_mode(regs).
I don't believe any harm can come of this problem, since the PC is only
output, the stack pointer is checked to ensure it resides within the
task's stack page before it is dereferenced in search of the return
address, and the return address register is similarly only output (if
the PC is in a leaf function or the beginning of a non-leaf function).
However unwind_stack() is only meant for unwinding kernel code, so to be
correct the unwind should stop there.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Leonid Yegoshin <Leonid.Yegoshin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11700/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/process.c b/arch/mips/kernel/process.c
index 85bff5d..06ee0d3 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/process.c
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ unsigned long notrace unwind_stack_by_address(unsigned long stack_page,
*sp + sizeof(*regs) <= stack_page + THREAD_SIZE - 32) {
regs = (struct pt_regs *)*sp;
pc = regs->cp0_epc;
- if (__kernel_text_address(pc)) {
+ if (!user_mode(regs) && __kernel_text_address(pc)) {
*sp = regs->regs[29];
*ra = regs->regs[31];
return pc;
--
2.7.4
