This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ia64: fix user_stack_pointer() for ptrace() to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ia64-fix-user_stack_pointer-for-ptrace.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 7ad1e366167837daeb93d0bacb57dee820b0b898 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2021 13:27:32 -0700 Subject: ia64: fix user_stack_pointer() for ptrace() From: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 7ad1e366167837daeb93d0bacb57dee820b0b898 upstream. ia64 has two stacks: - memory stack (or stack), pointed at by by r12 - register backing store (register stack), pointed at by ar.bsp/ar.bspstore with complications around dirty register frame on CPU. In [1] Dmitry noticed that PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO returns the register stack instead memory stack. The bug comes from the fact that user_stack_pointer() and current_user_stack_pointer() don't return the same register: ulong user_stack_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs) { return regs->ar_bspstore; } #define current_user_stack_pointer() (current_pt_regs()->r12) The change gets both back in sync. I think ptrace(PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO) is the only affected user by this bug on ia64. The change fixes 'rt_sigreturn.gen.test' strace test where it was observed initially. Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/769614 [1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210331084447.2561532-1-slyfox@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/ia64/include/asm/ptrace.h | 8 +------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/arch/ia64/include/asm/ptrace.h +++ b/arch/ia64/include/asm/ptrace.h @@ -54,8 +54,7 @@ static inline unsigned long user_stack_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs) { - /* FIXME: should this be bspstore + nr_dirty regs? */ - return regs->ar_bspstore; + return regs->r12; } static inline int is_syscall_success(struct pt_regs *regs) @@ -79,11 +78,6 @@ static inline long regs_return_value(str unsigned long __ip = instruction_pointer(regs); \ (__ip & ~3UL) + ((__ip & 3UL) << 2); \ }) -/* - * Why not default? Because user_stack_pointer() on ia64 gives register - * stack backing store instead... - */ -#define current_user_stack_pointer() (current_pt_regs()->r12) /* given a pointer to a task_struct, return the user's pt_regs */ # define task_pt_regs(t) (((struct pt_regs *) ((char *) (t) + IA64_STK_OFFSET)) - 1) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from slyfox@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.4/ia64-fix-user_stack_pointer-for-ptrace.patch