This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled MIPS: do_mcheck: Fix kernel code dump with EVA to the 4.1-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: mips-do_mcheck-fix-kernel-code-dump-with-eva.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 55c723e181ccec30fb5c672397fe69ec35967d97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 13:50:21 +0100 Subject: MIPS: do_mcheck: Fix kernel code dump with EVA From: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 55c723e181ccec30fb5c672397fe69ec35967d97 upstream. If a machine check exception is raised in kernel mode, user context, with EVA enabled, then the do_mcheck handler will attempt to read the code around the EPC using EVA load instructions, i.e. as if the reads were from user mode. This will either read random user data if the process has anything mapped at the same address, or it will cause an exception which is handled by __get_user, resulting in this output: Code: (Bad address in epc) Fix by setting the current user access mode to kernel if the saved register context indicates the exception was taken in kernel mode. This causes __get_user to use normal loads to read the kernel code. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Leonid Yegoshin <leonid.yegoshin@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10777/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/kernel/traps.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c @@ -1518,6 +1518,7 @@ asmlinkage void do_mcheck(struct pt_regs const int field = 2 * sizeof(unsigned long); int multi_match = regs->cp0_status & ST0_TS; enum ctx_state prev_state; + mm_segment_t old_fs = get_fs(); prev_state = exception_enter(); show_regs(regs); @@ -1539,8 +1540,13 @@ asmlinkage void do_mcheck(struct pt_regs dump_tlb_all(); } + if (!user_mode(regs)) + set_fs(KERNEL_DS); + show_code((unsigned int __user *) regs->cp0_epc); + set_fs(old_fs); + /* * Some chips may have other causes of machine check (e.g. SB1 * graduation timer) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.1/mips-show_stack-fix-stack-trace-with-eva.patch queue-4.1/mips-flush-rps-on-kernel-entry-with-eva.patch queue-4.1/mips-do_mcheck-fix-kernel-code-dump-with-eva.patch queue-4.1/mips-malta-don-t-reinitialise-rtc.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html