The patch below does not apply to the 3.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 7ddc6a2199f1da405a2fb68c40db8899b1a8cd87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 17:39:06 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] x86/asm/traps: Disable tracing and kprobes in fixup_bad_iret
and sync_regs
These functions can be executed on the int3 stack, so kprobes
are dangerous. Tracing is probably a bad idea, too.
Fixes: b645af2d5905 ("x86_64, traps: Rework bad_iret")
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # Backport as far back as it would apply
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/50e33d26adca60816f3ba968875801652507d0c4.1416870125.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
index de801f22128a..07ab8e9733c5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(do_int3);
* for scheduling or signal handling. The actual stack switch is done in
* entry.S
*/
-asmlinkage __visible struct pt_regs *sync_regs(struct pt_regs *eregs)
+asmlinkage __visible notrace struct pt_regs *sync_regs(struct pt_regs *eregs)
{
struct pt_regs *regs = eregs;
/* Did already sync */
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ struct bad_iret_stack {
struct pt_regs regs;
};
-asmlinkage __visible
+asmlinkage __visible notrace
struct bad_iret_stack *fixup_bad_iret(struct bad_iret_stack *s)
{
/*
@@ -436,6 +436,7 @@ struct bad_iret_stack *fixup_bad_iret(struct bad_iret_stack *s)
BUG_ON(!user_mode_vm(&new_stack->regs));
return new_stack;
}
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(fixup_bad_iret);
#endif
/*
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