4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit da20ab35180780e4a6eadc804544f1fa967f3567 ] We do not have tracepoints for sys_modify_ldt() because we define it directly instead of using the normal SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros. However, there is a reason sys_modify_ldt() does not use the macros: it has an 'int' return type instead of 'unsigned long'. This is a bug, but it's a bug cemented in the ABI. What does this mean? If we return -EINVAL from a function that returns 'int', we have 0x00000000ffffffea in %rax. But, if we return -EINVAL from a function returning 'unsigned long', we end up with 0xffffffffffffffea in %rax, which is wrong. To work around this and maintain the 'int' behavior while using the SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros, so we add a cast to 'unsigned int' in both implementations of sys_modify_ldt(). Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018172107.1A79C532@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c | 16 +++++++++++++--- arch/x86/um/ldt.c | 7 +++++-- 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ioperm(unsigned long asmlinkage long sys_iopl(unsigned int); /* kernel/ldt.c */ -asmlinkage int sys_modify_ldt(int, void __user *, unsigned long); +asmlinkage long sys_modify_ldt(int, void __user *, unsigned long); /* kernel/signal.c */ asmlinkage long sys_rt_sigreturn(void); --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ #include <linux/string.h> #include <linux/mm.h> #include <linux/smp.h> +#include <linux/syscalls.h> #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/vmalloc.h> #include <linux/uaccess.h> @@ -271,8 +272,8 @@ out: return error; } -asmlinkage int sys_modify_ldt(int func, void __user *ptr, - unsigned long bytecount) +SYSCALL_DEFINE3(modify_ldt, int , func , void __user * , ptr , + unsigned long , bytecount) { int ret = -ENOSYS; @@ -290,5 +291,14 @@ asmlinkage int sys_modify_ldt(int func, ret = write_ldt(ptr, bytecount, 0); break; } - return ret; + /* + * The SYSCALL_DEFINE() macros give us an 'unsigned long' + * return type, but tht ABI for sys_modify_ldt() expects + * 'int'. This cast gives us an int-sized value in %rax + * for the return code. The 'unsigned' is necessary so + * the compiler does not try to sign-extend the negative + * return codes into the high half of the register when + * taking the value from int->long. + */ + return (unsigned int)ret; } --- a/arch/x86/um/ldt.c +++ b/arch/x86/um/ldt.c @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ #include <linux/mm.h> #include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/slab.h> +#include <linux/syscalls.h> #include <linux/uaccess.h> #include <asm/unistd.h> #include <os.h> @@ -369,7 +370,9 @@ void free_ldt(struct mm_context *mm) mm->arch.ldt.entry_count = 0; } -int sys_modify_ldt(int func, void __user *ptr, unsigned long bytecount) +SYSCALL_DEFINE3(modify_ldt, int , func , void __user * , ptr , + unsigned long , bytecount) { - return do_modify_ldt_skas(func, ptr, bytecount); + /* See non-um modify_ldt() for why we do this cast */ + return (unsigned int)do_modify_ldt_skas(func, ptr, bytecount); }