This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
MIPS: stack protector: Fix per-task canary switch
to the 3.11-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-stack-protector-fix-per-task-canary-switch.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 8b3c569a3999a8fd5a819f892525ab5520777c92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 12:14:26 +0100
Subject: MIPS: stack protector: Fix per-task canary switch
From: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 8b3c569a3999a8fd5a819f892525ab5520777c92 upstream.
Commit 1400eb6 (MIPS: r4k,octeon,r2300: stack protector: change canary
per task) was merged in v3.11 and introduced assembly in the MIPS resume
functions to update the value of the current canary in
__stack_chk_guard. However it used PTR_L resulting in a load of the
canary value, instead of PTR_LA to construct its address. The value is
intended to be random but is then treated as an address in the
subsequent LONG_S (store).
This was observed to cause a fault and panic:
CPU 0 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 139fea20, epc == 8000cc0c, ra == 8034f2a4
Oops[#1]:
...
$24 : 139fea20 1e1f7cb6
...
Call Trace:
[<8000cc0c>] resume+0xac/0x118
[<8034f2a4>] __schedule+0x5f8/0x78c
[<8034f4e0>] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x20/0x2c
[<80348eec>] rest_init+0x74/0x84
[<804dc990>] start_kernel+0x43c/0x454
Code: 3c18804b 8f184030 8cb901f8 <af190000> 00c0e021 8cb002f0 8cb102f4 8cb202f8 8cb302fc
This can also be forced by modifying
arch/mips/include/asm/stackprotector.h so that the default
__stack_chk_guard value is more likely to be a bad (or unaligned)
pointer.
Fix it to use PTR_LA instead, to load the address of the canary value,
which the LONG_S can then use to write into it.
Reported-by: bobjones (via #mipslinux on IRC)
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6026/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/kernel/octeon_switch.S | 2 +-
arch/mips/kernel/r2300_switch.S | 2 +-
arch/mips/kernel/r4k_switch.S | 2 +-
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/octeon_switch.S
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/octeon_switch.S
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
3:
#if defined(CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR) && !defined(CONFIG_SMP)
- PTR_L t8, __stack_chk_guard
+ PTR_LA t8, __stack_chk_guard
LONG_L t9, TASK_STACK_CANARY(a1)
LONG_S t9, 0(t8)
#endif
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/r2300_switch.S
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/r2300_switch.S
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ LEAF(resume)
1:
#if defined(CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR) && !defined(CONFIG_SMP)
- PTR_L t8, __stack_chk_guard
+ PTR_LA t8, __stack_chk_guard
LONG_L t9, TASK_STACK_CANARY(a1)
LONG_S t9, 0(t8)
#endif
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/r4k_switch.S
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/r4k_switch.S
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
1:
#if defined(CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR) && !defined(CONFIG_SMP)
- PTR_L t8, __stack_chk_guard
+ PTR_LA t8, __stack_chk_guard
LONG_L t9, TASK_STACK_CANARY(a1)
LONG_S t9, 0(t8)
#endif
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.11/mips-stack-protector-fix-per-task-canary-switch.patch
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