[PATCH] powerpc: fix swapcontext backwards compatibility due to VSX ucontext changes

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Tue Jul 8 18:43:41 EST 2008


When the ucontext changed to add the VSX context, this broke backwards
compatibly on swapcontext.  swapcontext only compares the ucontext size
passed in from the user to the new kernel ucontext size.

This adds a check against the old ucontext size (with VMX but without
VSX).  It also adds some sanity check for ucontexts without VSX, but
where VSX is used according the MSR.  Fixes for both 32 and 64bit
processes on 64bit kernels

Kudos to Paulus for noticing.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
---
Fix compile error without CONFIG_VSX

 arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c |   39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c |   36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6-ozlabs/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-ozlabs.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
+++ linux-2.6-ozlabs/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
@@ -68,6 +68,13 @@
 #define ucontext	ucontext32
 
 /*
+ * Userspace code may pass a ucontext which doesn't include VSX added
+ * at the end.  We need to check for this case.
+ */
+#define UCONTEXTSIZEWITHOUTVSX \
+		(sizeof(struct ucontext) - sizeof(elf_vsrreghalf_t32))
+
+/*
  * Returning 0 means we return to userspace via
  * ret_from_except and thus restore all user
  * registers from *regs.  This is what we need
@@ -930,12 +937,42 @@ long sys_swapcontext(struct ucontext __u
 {
 	unsigned char tmp;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
+	unsigned long new_msr = 0;
+
+	if (new_ctx &&
+	    __get_user(new_msr, &new_ctx->uc_mcontext.mc_gregs[PT_MSR]))
+		return -EFAULT;
+	/*
+	 * Check that the context is not smaller than the original
+	 * size (with VMX but without VSX)
+	 */
+	if (ctx_size < UCONTEXTSIZEWITHOUTVSX)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	/*
+	 * If the new context state sets the MSR VSX bits but
+	 * it doesn't provide VSX state.
+	 */
+	if ((ctx_size < sizeof(struct ucontext)) &&
+	    (new_msr & MSR_VSX))
+		return -EINVAL;
+#ifdef CONFIG_VSX
+	/*
+	 * If userspace doesn't provide enough room for VSX data,
+	 * but current thread has used VSX, we don't have anywhere
+	 * to store the full context back into.
+	 */
+	if ((ctx_size < sizeof(struct ucontext)) &&
+	    (current->thread.used_vsr && old_ctx))
+		return -EINVAL;
+#endif
+#else
 	/* Context size is for future use. Right now, we only make sure
 	 * we are passed something we understand
 	 */
 	if (ctx_size < sizeof(struct ucontext))
 		return -EINVAL;
-
+#endif
 	if (old_ctx != NULL) {
 		struct mcontext __user *mctx;
 
Index: linux-2.6-ozlabs/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-ozlabs.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c
+++ linux-2.6-ozlabs/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c
@@ -268,6 +268,13 @@ static long setup_trampoline(unsigned in
 }
 
 /*
+ * Userspace code may pass a ucontext which doesn't include VSX added
+ * at the end.  We need to check for this case.
+ */
+#define UCONTEXTSIZEWITHOUTVSX \
+		(sizeof(struct ucontext) - 32*sizeof(long))
+
+/*
  * Handle {get,set,swap}_context operations
  */
 int sys_swapcontext(struct ucontext __user *old_ctx,
@@ -276,13 +283,34 @@ int sys_swapcontext(struct ucontext __us
 {
 	unsigned char tmp;
 	sigset_t set;
+	unsigned long new_msr = 0;
 
-	/* Context size is for future use. Right now, we only make sure
-	 * we are passed something we understand
+	if (new_ctx &&
+	    __get_user(new_msr, &new_ctx->uc_mcontext.gp_regs[PT_MSR]))
+		return -EFAULT;
+	/*
+	 * Check that the context is not smaller than the original
+	 * size (with VMX but without VSX)
 	 */
-	if (ctx_size < sizeof(struct ucontext))
+	if (ctx_size < UCONTEXTSIZEWITHOUTVSX)
 		return -EINVAL;
-
+	/*
+	 * If the new context state sets the MSR VSX bits but
+	 * it doesn't provide VSX state.
+	 */
+	if ((ctx_size < sizeof(struct ucontext)) &&
+	    (new_msr & MSR_VSX))
+		return -EINVAL;
+#ifdef CONFIG_VSX
+	/*
+	 * If userspace doesn't provide enough room for VSX data,
+	 * but current thread has used VSX, we don't have anywhere
+	 * to store the full context back into.
+	 */
+	if ((ctx_size < sizeof(struct ucontext)) &&
+	    (current->thread.used_vsr && old_ctx))
+		return -EINVAL;
+#endif
 	if (old_ctx != NULL) {
 		if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, old_ctx, sizeof(*old_ctx))
 		    || setup_sigcontext(&old_ctx->uc_mcontext, regs, 0, NULL, 0)



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