This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
connector: improved unaligned access error fix
to the 3.12-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:
connector-improved-unaligned-access-error-fix.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Thu Dec 5 16:16:39 PST 2013
From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 12:09:21 -0500
Subject: connector: improved unaligned access error fix
From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 1ca1a4cf59ea343a1a70084fe7cc96f37f3cf5b1 ]
In af3e095a1fb4, Erik Jacobsen fixed one type of unaligned access
bug for ia64 by converting a 64-bit write to use put_unaligned().
Unfortunately, since gcc will convert a short memset() to a series
of appropriately-aligned stores, the problem is now visible again
on tilegx, where the memset that zeros out proc_event is converted
to three 64-bit stores, causing an unaligned access panic.
A better fix for the original problem is to ensure that proc_event
is aligned to 8 bytes here. We can do that relatively easily by
arranging to start the struct cn_msg aligned to 8 bytes and then
offset by 4 bytes. Doing so means that the immediately following
proc_event structure is then correctly aligned to 8 bytes.
The result is that the memset() stores are now aligned, and as an
added benefit, we can remove the put_unaligned() calls in the code.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/connector/cn_proc.c | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/connector/cn_proc.c
+++ b/drivers/connector/cn_proc.c
@@ -32,11 +32,23 @@
#include <linux/atomic.h>
#include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
-#include <asm/unaligned.h>
-
#include <linux/cn_proc.h>
-#define CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE (sizeof(struct cn_msg) + sizeof(struct proc_event))
+/*
+ * Size of a cn_msg followed by a proc_event structure. Since the
+ * sizeof struct cn_msg is a multiple of 4 bytes, but not 8 bytes, we
+ * add one 4-byte word to the size here, and then start the actual
+ * cn_msg structure 4 bytes into the stack buffer. The result is that
+ * the immediately following proc_event structure is aligned to 8 bytes.
+ */
+#define CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE (sizeof(struct cn_msg) + sizeof(struct proc_event) + 4)
+
+/* See comment above; we test our assumption about sizeof struct cn_msg here. */
+static inline struct cn_msg *buffer_to_cn_msg(__u8 *buffer)
+{
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct cn_msg) != 20);
+ return (struct cn_msg *)(buffer + 4);
+}
static atomic_t proc_event_num_listeners = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
static struct cb_id cn_proc_event_id = { CN_IDX_PROC, CN_VAL_PROC };
@@ -56,19 +68,19 @@ void proc_fork_connector(struct task_str
{
struct cn_msg *msg;
struct proc_event *ev;
- __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE];
+ __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE] __aligned(8);
struct timespec ts;
struct task_struct *parent;
if (atomic_read(&proc_event_num_listeners) < 1)
return;
- msg = (struct cn_msg *)buffer;
+ msg = buffer_to_cn_msg(buffer);
ev = (struct proc_event *)msg->data;
memset(&ev->event_data, 0, sizeof(ev->event_data));
get_seq(&msg->seq, &ev->cpu);
ktime_get_ts(&ts); /* get high res monotonic timestamp */
- put_unaligned(timespec_to_ns(&ts), (__u64 *)&ev->timestamp_ns);
+ ev->timestamp_ns = timespec_to_ns(&ts);
ev->what = PROC_EVENT_FORK;
rcu_read_lock();
parent = rcu_dereference(task->real_parent);
@@ -91,17 +103,17 @@ void proc_exec_connector(struct task_str
struct cn_msg *msg;
struct proc_event *ev;
struct timespec ts;
- __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE];
+ __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE] __aligned(8);
if (atomic_read(&proc_event_num_listeners) < 1)
return;
- msg = (struct cn_msg *)buffer;
+ msg = buffer_to_cn_msg(buffer);
ev = (struct proc_event *)msg->data;
memset(&ev->event_data, 0, sizeof(ev->event_data));
get_seq(&msg->seq, &ev->cpu);
ktime_get_ts(&ts); /* get high res monotonic timestamp */
- put_unaligned(timespec_to_ns(&ts), (__u64 *)&ev->timestamp_ns);
+ ev->timestamp_ns = timespec_to_ns(&ts);
ev->what = PROC_EVENT_EXEC;
ev->event_data.exec.process_pid = task->pid;
ev->event_data.exec.process_tgid = task->tgid;
@@ -117,14 +129,14 @@ void proc_id_connector(struct task_struc
{
struct cn_msg *msg;
struct proc_event *ev;
- __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE];
+ __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE] __aligned(8);
struct timespec ts;
const struct cred *cred;
if (atomic_read(&proc_event_num_listeners) < 1)
return;
- msg = (struct cn_msg *)buffer;
+ msg = buffer_to_cn_msg(buffer);
ev = (struct proc_event *)msg->data;
memset(&ev->event_data, 0, sizeof(ev->event_data));
ev->what = which_id;
@@ -145,7 +157,7 @@ void proc_id_connector(struct task_struc
rcu_read_unlock();
get_seq(&msg->seq, &ev->cpu);
ktime_get_ts(&ts); /* get high res monotonic timestamp */
- put_unaligned(timespec_to_ns(&ts), (__u64 *)&ev->timestamp_ns);
+ ev->timestamp_ns = timespec_to_ns(&ts);
memcpy(&msg->id, &cn_proc_event_id, sizeof(msg->id));
msg->ack = 0; /* not used */
@@ -159,17 +171,17 @@ void proc_sid_connector(struct task_stru
struct cn_msg *msg;
struct proc_event *ev;
struct timespec ts;
- __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE];
+ __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE] __aligned(8);
if (atomic_read(&proc_event_num_listeners) < 1)
return;
- msg = (struct cn_msg *)buffer;
+ msg = buffer_to_cn_msg(buffer);
ev = (struct proc_event *)msg->data;
memset(&ev->event_data, 0, sizeof(ev->event_data));
get_seq(&msg->seq, &ev->cpu);
ktime_get_ts(&ts); /* get high res monotonic timestamp */
- put_unaligned(timespec_to_ns(&ts), (__u64 *)&ev->timestamp_ns);
+ ev->timestamp_ns = timespec_to_ns(&ts);
ev->what = PROC_EVENT_SID;
ev->event_data.sid.process_pid = task->pid;
ev->event_data.sid.process_tgid = task->tgid;
@@ -186,17 +198,17 @@ void proc_ptrace_connector(struct task_s
struct cn_msg *msg;
struct proc_event *ev;
struct timespec ts;
- __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE];
+ __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE] __aligned(8);
if (atomic_read(&proc_event_num_listeners) < 1)
return;
- msg = (struct cn_msg *)buffer;
+ msg = buffer_to_cn_msg(buffer);
ev = (struct proc_event *)msg->data;
memset(&ev->event_data, 0, sizeof(ev->event_data));
get_seq(&msg->seq, &ev->cpu);
ktime_get_ts(&ts); /* get high res monotonic timestamp */
- put_unaligned(timespec_to_ns(&ts), (__u64 *)&ev->timestamp_ns);
+ ev->timestamp_ns = timespec_to_ns(&ts);
ev->what = PROC_EVENT_PTRACE;
ev->event_data.ptrace.process_pid = task->pid;
ev->event_data.ptrace.process_tgid = task->tgid;
@@ -221,17 +233,17 @@ void proc_comm_connector(struct task_str
struct cn_msg *msg;
struct proc_event *ev;
struct timespec ts;
- __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE];
+ __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE] __aligned(8);
if (atomic_read(&proc_event_num_listeners) < 1)
return;
- msg = (struct cn_msg *)buffer;
+ msg = buffer_to_cn_msg(buffer);
ev = (struct proc_event *)msg->data;
memset(&ev->event_data, 0, sizeof(ev->event_data));
get_seq(&msg->seq, &ev->cpu);
ktime_get_ts(&ts); /* get high res monotonic timestamp */
- put_unaligned(timespec_to_ns(&ts), (__u64 *)&ev->timestamp_ns);
+ ev->timestamp_ns = timespec_to_ns(&ts);
ev->what = PROC_EVENT_COMM;
ev->event_data.comm.process_pid = task->pid;
ev->event_data.comm.process_tgid = task->tgid;
@@ -248,18 +260,18 @@ void proc_coredump_connector(struct task
{
struct cn_msg *msg;
struct proc_event *ev;
- __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE];
+ __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE] __aligned(8);
struct timespec ts;
if (atomic_read(&proc_event_num_listeners) < 1)
return;
- msg = (struct cn_msg *)buffer;
+ msg = buffer_to_cn_msg(buffer);
ev = (struct proc_event *)msg->data;
memset(&ev->event_data, 0, sizeof(ev->event_data));
get_seq(&msg->seq, &ev->cpu);
ktime_get_ts(&ts); /* get high res monotonic timestamp */
- put_unaligned(timespec_to_ns(&ts), (__u64 *)&ev->timestamp_ns);
+ ev->timestamp_ns = timespec_to_ns(&ts);
ev->what = PROC_EVENT_COREDUMP;
ev->event_data.coredump.process_pid = task->pid;
ev->event_data.coredump.process_tgid = task->tgid;
@@ -275,18 +287,18 @@ void proc_exit_connector(struct task_str
{
struct cn_msg *msg;
struct proc_event *ev;
- __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE];
+ __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE] __aligned(8);
struct timespec ts;
if (atomic_read(&proc_event_num_listeners) < 1)
return;
- msg = (struct cn_msg *)buffer;
+ msg = buffer_to_cn_msg(buffer);
ev = (struct proc_event *)msg->data;
memset(&ev->event_data, 0, sizeof(ev->event_data));
get_seq(&msg->seq, &ev->cpu);
ktime_get_ts(&ts); /* get high res monotonic timestamp */
- put_unaligned(timespec_to_ns(&ts), (__u64 *)&ev->timestamp_ns);
+ ev->timestamp_ns = timespec_to_ns(&ts);
ev->what = PROC_EVENT_EXIT;
ev->event_data.exit.process_pid = task->pid;
ev->event_data.exit.process_tgid = task->tgid;
@@ -312,18 +324,18 @@ static void cn_proc_ack(int err, int rcv
{
struct cn_msg *msg;
struct proc_event *ev;
- __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE];
+ __u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE] __aligned(8);
struct timespec ts;
if (atomic_read(&proc_event_num_listeners) < 1)
return;
- msg = (struct cn_msg *)buffer;
+ msg = buffer_to_cn_msg(buffer);
ev = (struct proc_event *)msg->data;
memset(&ev->event_data, 0, sizeof(ev->event_data));
msg->seq = rcvd_seq;
ktime_get_ts(&ts); /* get high res monotonic timestamp */
- put_unaligned(timespec_to_ns(&ts), (__u64 *)&ev->timestamp_ns);
+ ev->timestamp_ns = timespec_to_ns(&ts);
ev->cpu = -1;
ev->what = PROC_EVENT_NONE;
ev->event_data.ack.err = err;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/connector-improved-unaligned-access-error-fix.patch
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