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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-01-20 09:31:49 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-01-21 09:43:18 +0100
commit552b8aa4d1edcc1c764ff6f61a7686347a2d1827 (patch)
treecdebda18ea3360461358127091859610be2acf01 /arch/x86
parente0a96129db574d6365e3439d16d88517c437ab33 (diff)
Revert "x86: signal: change type of paramter for sys_rt_sigreturn()"
This reverts commit 4217458dafaa57d8e26a46f5d05ab8c53cf64191. Justin Madru bisected this commit, it was causing weird Firefox crashes. The reason is that GCC mis-optimizes (re-uses) the on-stack parameters of the calling frame, which corrupts the syscall return pt_regs state and thus corrupts user-space register state. So we go back to the slightly less clean but more optimization-safe method of getting to pt_regs. Also add a comment to explain this. Resolves: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12505 Reported-and-bisected-by: Justin Madru <jdm64@gawab.com> Tested-by: Justin Madru <jdm64@gawab.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/signal.c11
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h
index 9c6797c3e56..c0b0bda754e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ asmlinkage int sys_sigaction(int, const struct old_sigaction __user *,
struct old_sigaction __user *);
asmlinkage int sys_sigaltstack(unsigned long);
asmlinkage unsigned long sys_sigreturn(unsigned long);
-asmlinkage int sys_rt_sigreturn(struct pt_regs);
+asmlinkage int sys_rt_sigreturn(unsigned long);
/* kernel/ioport.c */
asmlinkage long sys_iopl(unsigned long);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
index 89bb7668041..df0587f24c5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
@@ -632,9 +632,16 @@ badframe:
}
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-asmlinkage int sys_rt_sigreturn(struct pt_regs regs)
+/*
+ * Note: do not pass in pt_regs directly as with tail-call optimization
+ * GCC will incorrectly stomp on the caller's frame and corrupt user-space
+ * register state:
+ */
+asmlinkage int sys_rt_sigreturn(unsigned long __unused)
{
- return do_rt_sigreturn(&regs);
+ struct pt_regs *regs = (struct pt_regs *)&__unused;
+
+ return do_rt_sigreturn(regs);
}
#else /* !CONFIG_X86_32 */
asmlinkage long sys_rt_sigreturn(struct pt_regs *regs)