From: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== commit 6914e1e3f63caa829431160f0f7093292daef2d5 upstream. The regfile provided to SA_SIGINFO signal handler as ucontext was off by one due to pt_regs gutter cleanups in 2013. Before handling signal, user pt_regs are copied onto user_regs_struct and copied back later. Both structs are binary compatible. This was all fine until commit 2fa919045b72 (ARC: pt_regs update #2) which removed the empty stack slot at top of pt_regs (corresponding to first pad) and made the corresponding fixup in struct user_regs_struct (the pad in there was moved out of @scratch - not removed altogether as it is part of ptrace ABI) struct user_regs_struct { + long pad; struct { - long pad; long bta, lp_start, lp_end,.... } scratch; ... } This meant that now user_regs_struct was off by 1 reg w.r.t pt_regs and signal code needs to user_regs_struct.scratch to reflect it as pt_regs, which is what this commit does. This problem was hidden for 2 years, because both save/restore, despite using wrong location, were using the same location. Only an interim inspection (reproducer below) exposed the issue. void handle_segv(int signo, siginfo_t *info, void *context) { ucontext_t *uc = context; struct user_regs_struct *regs = &(uc->uc_mcontext.regs); printf("regs %x %x\n", <=== prints 7 8 (vs. 8 9) regs->scratch.r8, regs->scratch.r9); } int main() { struct sigaction sa; sa.sa_sigaction = handle_segv; sa.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO; sigemptyset(&sa.sa_mask); sigaction(SIGSEGV, &sa, NULL); asm volatile( "mov r7, 7 \n" "mov r8, 8 \n" "mov r9, 9 \n" "mov r10, 10 \n" :::"r7","r8","r9","r10"); *((unsigned int*)0x10) = 0; } Fixes: 2fa919045b72ec892e "ARC: pt_regs update #2: Remove unused gutter at start of pt_regs" Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- arch/arc/kernel/signal.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arc/kernel/signal.c index 7e95e1a86510..d68b410595c8 100644 --- a/arch/arc/kernel/signal.c +++ b/arch/arc/kernel/signal.c @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ stash_usr_regs(struct rt_sigframe __user *sf, struct pt_regs *regs, sigset_t *set) { int err; - err = __copy_to_user(&(sf->uc.uc_mcontext.regs), regs, + err = __copy_to_user(&(sf->uc.uc_mcontext.regs.scratch), regs, sizeof(sf->uc.uc_mcontext.regs.scratch)); err |= __copy_to_user(&sf->uc.uc_sigmask, set, sizeof(sigset_t)); @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ static int restore_usr_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, struct rt_sigframe __user *sf) if (!err) set_current_blocked(&set); - err |= __copy_from_user(regs, &(sf->uc.uc_mcontext.regs), + err |= __copy_from_user(regs, &(sf->uc.uc_mcontext.regs.scratch), sizeof(sf->uc.uc_mcontext.regs.scratch)); return err; -- 2.3.5 -- 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