Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932484AbcKGNV4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2016 08:21:56 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:36881 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932265AbcKGNFc (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2016 08:05:32 -0500 X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER SECTION, Duplicate header field: "References" From: Jiri Slaby To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Anton Blanchard , Michael Ellerman , Jiri Slaby Subject: [PATCH 3.12 16/72] powerpc/vdso64: Use double word compare on pointers Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 14:04:23 +0100 Message-Id: <62c65d8792347c7f347594d464a9e6fc79a0ab1b.1478523828.git.jslaby@suse.cz> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.10.2 In-Reply-To: <0f3caac741164dcff670ae0f4d1cfcb0a7026a1c.1478523828.git.jslaby@suse.cz> References: <0f3caac741164dcff670ae0f4d1cfcb0a7026a1c.1478523828.git.jslaby@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2297 Lines: 69 From: Anton Blanchard 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== commit 5045ea37377ce8cca6890d32b127ad6770e6dce5 upstream. __kernel_get_syscall_map() and __kernel_clock_getres() use cmpli to check if the passed in pointer is non zero. cmpli maps to a 32 bit compare on binutils, so we ignore the top 32 bits. A simple test case can be created by passing in a bogus pointer with the bottom 32 bits clear. Using a clk_id that is handled by the VDSO, then one that is handled by the kernel shows the problem: printf("%d\n", clock_getres(CLOCK_REALTIME, (void *)0x100000000)); printf("%d\n", clock_getres(CLOCK_BOOTTIME, (void *)0x100000000)); And we get: 0 -1 The bigger issue is if we pass a valid pointer with the bottom 32 bits clear, in this case we will return success but won't write any data to the pointer. I stumbled across this issue because the LLVM integrated assembler doesn't accept cmpli with 3 arguments. Fix this by converting them to cmpldi. Fixes: a7f290dad32e ("[PATCH] powerpc: Merge vdso's and add vdso support to 32 bits kernel") Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby --- arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/datapage.S | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/datapage.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/datapage.S index 79796de11737..3263ee23170d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/datapage.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/datapage.S @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ V_FUNCTION_BEGIN(__kernel_get_syscall_map) bl V_LOCAL_FUNC(__get_datapage) mtlr r12 addi r3,r3,CFG_SYSCALL_MAP64 - cmpli cr0,r4,0 + cmpldi cr0,r4,0 crclr cr0*4+so beqlr li r0,__NR_syscalls diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S index a76b4af37ef2..382021324883 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ V_FUNCTION_BEGIN(__kernel_clock_getres) bne cr0,99f li r3,0 - cmpli cr0,r4,0 + cmpldi cr0,r4,0 crclr cr0*4+so beqlr lis r5,CLOCK_REALTIME_RES@h -- 2.10.2