4.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 8474ba74193d302e8340dddd1e16c85cc4b98caf upstream. Make sure the compiler does not modify arguments of syscall functions. This can happen if the compiler generates a tailcall to another function. For example, without asmlinkage_protect sys_openat is compiled into this function: sys_openat: clr.l %d0 move.w 18(%sp),%d0 move.l %d0,16(%sp) jbra do_sys_open Note how the fourth argument is modified in place, modifying the register %d4 that gets restored from this stack slot when the function returns to user-space. The caller may expect the register to be unmodified across system calls. Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/m68k/include/asm/linkage.h | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) --- a/arch/m68k/include/asm/linkage.h +++ b/arch/m68k/include/asm/linkage.h @@ -4,4 +4,34 @@ #define __ALIGN .align 4 #define __ALIGN_STR ".align 4" +/* + * Make sure the compiler doesn't do anything stupid with the + * arguments on the stack - they are owned by the *caller*, not + * the callee. This just fools gcc into not spilling into them, + * and keeps it from doing tailcall recursion and/or using the + * stack slots for temporaries, since they are live and "used" + * all the way to the end of the function. + */ +#define asmlinkage_protect(n, ret, args...) \ + __asmlinkage_protect##n(ret, ##args) +#define __asmlinkage_protect_n(ret, args...) \ + __asm__ __volatile__ ("" : "=r" (ret) : "0" (ret), ##args) +#define __asmlinkage_protect0(ret) \ + __asmlinkage_protect_n(ret) +#define __asmlinkage_protect1(ret, arg1) \ + __asmlinkage_protect_n(ret, "m" (arg1)) +#define __asmlinkage_protect2(ret, arg1, arg2) \ + __asmlinkage_protect_n(ret, "m" (arg1), "m" (arg2)) +#define __asmlinkage_protect3(ret, arg1, arg2, arg3) \ + __asmlinkage_protect_n(ret, "m" (arg1), "m" (arg2), "m" (arg3)) +#define __asmlinkage_protect4(ret, arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4) \ + __asmlinkage_protect_n(ret, "m" (arg1), "m" (arg2), "m" (arg3), \ + "m" (arg4)) +#define __asmlinkage_protect5(ret, arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5) \ + __asmlinkage_protect_n(ret, "m" (arg1), "m" (arg2), "m" (arg3), \ + "m" (arg4), "m" (arg5)) +#define __asmlinkage_protect6(ret, arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5, arg6) \ + __asmlinkage_protect_n(ret, "m" (arg1), "m" (arg2), "m" (arg3), \ + "m" (arg4), "m" (arg5), "m" (arg6)) + #endif -- 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