Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756897AbaGHTmO (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2014 15:42:14 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:54105 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755680AbaGHTIj (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2014 15:08:39 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Russell King" , "Nicolas Pitre" , "Andrey Ryabinin" Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 20:01:50 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 014/125] ARM: 8051/1: put_user: fix possible data corruption in put_user In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.249 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.61-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Andrey Ryabinin commit 537094b64b229bf3ad146042f83e74cf6abe59df upstream. According to arm procedure call standart r2 register is call-cloberred. So after the result of x expression was put into r2 any following function call in p may overwrite r2. To fix this, the result of p expression must be saved to the temporary variable before the assigment x expression to __r2. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre Signed-off-by: Russell King Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h @@ -158,8 +158,9 @@ extern int __put_user_8(void *, unsigned #define put_user(x,p) \ ({ \ unsigned long __limit = current_thread_info()->addr_limit - 1; \ + const typeof(*(p)) __user *__tmp_p = (p); \ register const typeof(*(p)) __r2 asm("r2") = (x); \ - register const typeof(*(p)) __user *__p asm("r0") = (p);\ + register const typeof(*(p)) __user *__p asm("r0") = __tmp_p; \ register unsigned long __l asm("r1") = __limit; \ register int __e asm("r0"); \ switch (sizeof(*(__p))) { \ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/