This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
arm64: compat: Work around uninitialized variable warning
to the 6.1-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:
arm64-compat-work-around-uninitialized-variable-warn.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 2145f2a242da6850b2bf93ef2f35a1366f5fbbd9
Author: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Apr 4 12:36:25 2023 +0200
arm64: compat: Work around uninitialized variable warning
[ Upstream commit 32d85999680601d01b2a36713c9ffd7397c8688b ]
Dan reports that smatch complains about a potential uninitialized
variable being used in the compat alignment fixup code.
The logic is not wrong per se, but we do end up using an uninitialized
variable if reading the instruction that triggered the alignment fault
from user space faults, even if the fault ensures that the uninitialized
value doesn't propagate any further.
Given that we just give up and return 1 if any fault occurs when reading
the instruction, let's get rid of the 'success handling' pattern that
captures the fault in a variable and aborts later, and instead, just
return 1 immediately if any of the get_user() calls result in an
exception.
Fixes: 3fc24ef32d3b ("arm64: compat: Implement misalignment fixups for multiword loads")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202304021214.gekJ8yRc-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230404103625.2386382-1-ardb@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/compat_alignment.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/compat_alignment.c
index 5edec2f49ec98..deff21bfa6800 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/compat_alignment.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/compat_alignment.c
@@ -314,36 +314,32 @@ int do_compat_alignment_fixup(unsigned long addr, struct pt_regs *regs)
int (*handler)(unsigned long addr, u32 instr, struct pt_regs *regs);
unsigned int type;
u32 instr = 0;
- u16 tinstr = 0;
int isize = 4;
int thumb2_32b = 0;
- int fault;
instrptr = instruction_pointer(regs);
if (compat_thumb_mode(regs)) {
__le16 __user *ptr = (__le16 __user *)(instrptr & ~1);
+ u16 tinstr, tinst2;
- fault = alignment_get_thumb(regs, ptr, &tinstr);
- if (!fault) {
- if (IS_T32(tinstr)) {
- /* Thumb-2 32-bit */
- u16 tinst2;
- fault = alignment_get_thumb(regs, ptr + 1, &tinst2);
- instr = ((u32)tinstr << 16) | tinst2;
- thumb2_32b = 1;
- } else {
- isize = 2;
- instr = thumb2arm(tinstr);
- }
+ if (alignment_get_thumb(regs, ptr, &tinstr))
+ return 1;
+
+ if (IS_T32(tinstr)) { /* Thumb-2 32-bit */
+ if (alignment_get_thumb(regs, ptr + 1, &tinst2))
+ return 1;
+ instr = ((u32)tinstr << 16) | tinst2;
+ thumb2_32b = 1;
+ } else {
+ isize = 2;
+ instr = thumb2arm(tinstr);
}
} else {
- fault = alignment_get_arm(regs, (__le32 __user *)instrptr, &instr);
+ if (alignment_get_arm(regs, (__le32 __user *)instrptr, &instr))
+ return 1;
}
- if (fault)
- return 1;
-
switch (CODING_BITS(instr)) {
case 0x00000000: /* 3.13.4 load/store instruction extensions */
if (LDSTHD_I_BIT(instr))
