3.13.11.7 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit e5c460f46ae7ee94831cb55cb980f942aa9e5a85 ] This was found using Dave Jone's trinity tool. When a user process which is 32-bit performs a load or a store, the cpu chops off the top 32-bits of the effective address before translating it. This is because we run 32-bit tasks with the PSTATE_AM (address masking) bit set. We can't run the kernel with that bit set, so when the kernel accesses userspace no address masking occurs. Since a 32-bit process will have no mappings in that region we will properly fault, so we don't try to handle this using access_ok(), which can safely just be a NOP on sparc64. Real faults from 32-bit processes should never generate such addresses so a bug check was added long ago, and it barks in the logs if this happens. But it also barks when a kernel user access causes this condition, and that _can_ happen. For example, if a pointer passed into a system call is "0xfffffffc" and the kernel access 4 bytes offset from that pointer. Just handle such faults normally via the exception entries. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/sparc/mm/fault_64.c | 16 +--------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/sparc/mm/fault_64.c b/arch/sparc/mm/fault_64.c index a8ff0d1..4ced3fc 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/mm/fault_64.c +++ b/arch/sparc/mm/fault_64.c @@ -281,18 +281,6 @@ static void noinline __kprobes bogus_32bit_fault_tpc(struct pt_regs *regs) show_regs(regs); } -static void noinline __kprobes bogus_32bit_fault_address(struct pt_regs *regs, - unsigned long addr) -{ - static int times; - - if (times++ < 10) - printk(KERN_ERR "FAULT[%s:%d]: 32-bit process " - "reports 64-bit fault address [%lx]\n", - current->comm, current->pid, addr); - show_regs(regs); -} - asmlinkage void __kprobes do_sparc64_fault(struct pt_regs *regs) { enum ctx_state prev_state = exception_enter(); @@ -322,10 +310,8 @@ asmlinkage void __kprobes do_sparc64_fault(struct pt_regs *regs) goto intr_or_no_mm; } } - if (unlikely((address >> 32) != 0)) { - bogus_32bit_fault_address(regs, address); + if (unlikely((address >> 32) != 0)) goto intr_or_no_mm; - } } if (regs->tstate & TSTATE_PRIV) { -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html