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authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>2016-08-18 18:59:06 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-08-18 19:41:31 +0300
commit72b4f6a5e903b071f2a7c4eb1418cbe4eefdc344 (patch)
tree28c0131c9d7ffb0e286703461387ab0d534425b7 /arch/x86/kernel
parentae952ffdfdf986ecd1452d552a69b82cae7b5e58 (diff)
downloadlinux-72b4f6a5e903b071f2a7c4eb1418cbe4eefdc344.tar.xz
x86/dumpstack: Fix x86_32 kernel_stack_pointer() previous stack access
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 '&regs->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 '&regs->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 <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 0788aa6a23cb ("x86: Prepare removal of previous_esp from i386 thread_info structure") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/472453d6e9f6a2d4ab16aaed4935f43117111566.1471535549.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
index f79576a541ff..a1606eadd9ce 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ unsigned long kernel_stack_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs)
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;
}