This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
parisc: Fix ptrace syscall number and return value modification
to the 4.4-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:
parisc-fix-ptrace-syscall-number-and-return-value-modification.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 98e8b6c9ac9d1b1e9d1122dfa6783d5d566bb8f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 16:08:49 +0100
Subject: parisc: Fix ptrace syscall number and return value modification
From: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
commit 98e8b6c9ac9d1b1e9d1122dfa6783d5d566bb8f7 upstream.
Mike Frysinger reported that his ptrace testcase showed strange
behaviour on parisc: It was not possible to avoid a syscall and the
return value of a syscall couldn't be changed.
To modify a syscall number, we were missing to save the new syscall
number to gr20 which is then picked up later in assembly again.
The effect that the return value couldn't be changed is a side-effect of
another bug in the assembly code. When a process is ptraced, userspace
expects each syscall to report entrance and exit of a syscall. If a
syscall number was given which doesn't exist, we jumped to the normal
syscall exit code instead of informing userspace that the (non-existant)
syscall exits. This unexpected behaviour confuses userspace and thus the
bug was misinterpreted as if we can't change the return value.
This patch fixes both problems and was tested on 64bit kernel with
32bit userspace.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/parisc/kernel/ptrace.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
arch/parisc/kernel/syscall.S | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -269,14 +269,19 @@ long compat_arch_ptrace(struct task_stru
long do_syscall_trace_enter(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
- long ret = 0;
-
/* Do the secure computing check first. */
secure_computing_strict(regs->gr[20]);
if (test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE) &&
- tracehook_report_syscall_entry(regs))
- ret = -1L;
+ tracehook_report_syscall_entry(regs)) {
+ /*
+ * Tracing decided this syscall should not happen or the
+ * debugger stored an invalid system call number. Skip
+ * the system call and the system call restart handling.
+ */
+ regs->gr[20] = -1UL;
+ goto out;
+ }
#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
if (!is_compat_task())
@@ -290,7 +295,8 @@ long do_syscall_trace_enter(struct pt_re
regs->gr[24] & 0xffffffff,
regs->gr[23] & 0xffffffff);
- return ret ? : regs->gr[20];
+out:
+ return regs->gr[20];
}
void do_syscall_trace_exit(struct pt_regs *regs)
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/syscall.S
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/syscall.S
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ tracesys_next:
#endif
comiclr,>>= __NR_Linux_syscalls, %r20, %r0
- b,n .Lsyscall_nosys
+ b,n .Ltracesys_nosys
LDREGX %r20(%r19), %r19
@@ -359,6 +359,9 @@ tracesys_next:
be 0(%sr7,%r19)
ldo R%tracesys_exit(%r2),%r2
+.Ltracesys_nosys:
+ ldo -ENOSYS(%r0),%r28 /* set errno */
+
/* Do *not* call this function on the gateway page, because it
makes a direct call to syscall_trace. */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from deller@xxxxxx are
queue-4.4/parisc-fix-ptrace-syscall-number-and-return-value-modification.patch
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