3.16.40-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> commit 72b4f6a5e903b071f2a7c4eb1418cbe4eefdc344 upstream. On x86_32, when an interrupt happens from kernel space, SS and SP aren't pushed and the existing stack is used. So pt_regs is effectively two words shorter, and the previous stack pointer is normally the memory after the shortened pt_regs, aka '®s->sp'. But in the rare case where the interrupt hits right after the stack pointer has been changed to point to an empty stack, like for example when call_on_stack() is used, the address immediately after the shortened pt_regs is no longer on the stack. In that case, instead of '®s->sp', the previous stack pointer should be retrieved from the beginning of the current stack page. kernel_stack_pointer() wants to do that, but it forgets to dereference the pointer. So instead of returning a pointer to the previous stack, it returns a pointer to the beginning of the current stack. Note that it's probably outside of kernel_stack_pointer()'s scope to be switching stacks at all. The x86_64 version of this function doesn't do it, and it would be better for the caller to do it if necessary. But that's a patch for another day. This just fixes the original intent. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]> Cc: Byungchul Park <[email protected]> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Nilay Vaish <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Fixes: 0788aa6a23cb ("x86: Prepare removal of previous_esp from i386 thread_info structure") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/472453d6e9f6a2d4ab16aaed4935f43117111566.1471535549.git.jpoim...@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -190,8 +190,8 @@ unsigned long kernel_stack_pointer(struc return sp; prev_esp = (u32 *)(context); - if (prev_esp) - return (unsigned long)prev_esp; + if (*prev_esp) + return (unsigned long)*prev_esp; return (unsigned long)regs; }
