From: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> commit 5045ea37377ce8cca6890d32b127ad6770e6dce5 upstream. __kernel_get_syscall_map() and __kernel_clock_getres() use cmpli to check if the passed in pointer is non zero. cmpli maps to a 32 bit compare on binutils, so we ignore the top 32 bits. A simple test case can be created by passing in a bogus pointer with the bottom 32 bits clear. Using a clk_id that is handled by the VDSO, then one that is handled by the kernel shows the problem: printf("%d\n", clock_getres(CLOCK_REALTIME, (void *)0x100000000)); printf("%d\n", clock_getres(CLOCK_BOOTTIME, (void *)0x100000000)); And we get: 0 -1 The bigger issue is if we pass a valid pointer with the bottom 32 bits clear, in this case we will return success but won't write any data to the pointer. I stumbled across this issue because the LLVM integrated assembler doesn't accept cmpli with 3 arguments. Fix this by converting them to cmpldi. Fixes: a7f290dad32e ("[PATCH] powerpc: Merge vdso's and add vdso support to 32 bits kernel") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v2.6.15+ Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/datapage.S | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/datapage.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/datapage.S index 79796de11737..3263ee23170d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/datapage.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/datapage.S @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ V_FUNCTION_BEGIN(__kernel_get_syscall_map) bl V_LOCAL_FUNC(__get_datapage) mtlr r12 addi r3,r3,CFG_SYSCALL_MAP64 - cmpli cr0,r4,0 + cmpldi cr0,r4,0 crclr cr0*4+so beqlr li r0,__NR_syscalls diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S index a76b4af37ef2..382021324883 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ V_FUNCTION_BEGIN(__kernel_clock_getres) bne cr0,99f li r3,0 - cmpli cr0,r4,0 + cmpldi cr0,r4,0 crclr cr0*4+so beqlr lis r5,CLOCK_REALTIME_RES@h -- 2.14.1