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| author | Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> | 2015-03-21 18:54:21 -0400 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-03-23 08:52:46 +0100 |
| commit | 1daeaa315164c60b937f56fe3848d4328c358eba (patch) | |
| tree | 07db9e9d5b52cc23c2a839a597832136afca2c24 /arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | |
| parent | c38e503804b0402c510f82437069f7769fa0cea9 (diff) | |
x86/asm/entry: Fix execve() and sigreturn() syscalls to always return via IRET
Both the execve() and sigreturn() family of syscalls have the
ability to change registers in ways that may not be compatabile
with the syscall path they were called from.
In particular, SYSRET and SYSEXIT can't handle non-default %cs and %ss,
and some bits in eflags.
These syscalls have stubs that are hardcoded to jump to the IRET path,
and not return to the original syscall path.
The following commit:
76f5df43cab5e76 ("Always allocate a complete "struct pt_regs" on the kernel stack")
recently changed this for some 32-bit compat syscalls, but introduced a bug where
execve from a 32-bit program to a 64-bit program would fail because it still returned
via SYSRETL. This caused Wine to fail when built for both 32-bit and 64-bit.
This patch sets TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME for execve() and sigreturn() so
that the IRET path is always taken on exit to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426978461-32089-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com
[ Improved the changelog and comments. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h index ba115eb6fbcf..0abf7ab20ce2 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h @@ -260,6 +260,16 @@ static inline bool is_ia32_task(void) #endif return false; } + +/* + * Force syscall return via IRET by making it look as if there was + * some work pending. IRET is our most capable (but slowest) syscall + * return path, which is able to restore modified SS, CS and certain + * EFLAGS values that other (fast) syscall return instructions + * are not able to restore properly. + */ +#define force_iret() set_thread_flag(TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME) + #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */ #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ |