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authorDavid Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2007-11-12 23:59:05 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-11-21 09:25:52 -0800
commit52c7418eff50d66116b94c6e0a3cb08651dc49c3 (patch)
treed4e23a58ad9f0a9e045943defa8ec040c7d5548c /kernel
parent06283bea26adeb6dfa421419d2aa3979d63e50f1 (diff)
Fix compat futex hangs.
[FUTEX]: Fix address computation in compat code. [ Upstream commit: 3c5fd9c77d609b51c0bab682c9d40cbb496ec6f1 ] compat_exit_robust_list() computes a pointer to the futex entry in userspace as follows: (void __user *)entry + futex_offset 'entry' is a 'struct robust_list __user *', and 'futex_offset' is a 'compat_long_t' (typically a 's32'). Things explode if the 32-bit sign bit is set in futex_offset. Type promotion sign extends futex_offset to a 64-bit value before adding it to 'entry'. This triggered a problem on sparc64 running 32-bit applications which would lock up a cpu looping forever in the fault handling for the userspace load in handle_futex_death(). Compat userspace runs with address masking (wherein the cpu zeros out the top 32-bits of every effective address given to a memory operation instruction) so the sparc64 fault handler accounts for this by zero'ing out the top 32-bits of the fault address too. Since the kernel properly uses the compat_uptr interfaces, kernel side accesses to compat userspace work too since they will only use addresses with the top 32-bit clear. Because of this compat futex layer bug we get into the following loop when executing the get_user() load near the top of handle_futex_death(): 1) load from address '0xfffffffff7f16bd8', FAULT 2) fault handler clears upper 32-bits, processes fault for address '0xf7f16bd8' which succeeds 3) goto #1 I want to thank Bernd Zeimetz, Josip Rodin, and Fabio Massimo Di Nitto for their tireless efforts helping me track down this bug. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/futex_compat.c24
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex_compat.c b/kernel/futex_compat.c
index 7e52eb051f22..589b1e427b78 100644
--- a/kernel/futex_compat.c
+++ b/kernel/futex_compat.c
@@ -29,6 +29,15 @@ fetch_robust_entry(compat_uptr_t *uentry, struct robust_list __user **entry,
return 0;
}
+static void __user *futex_uaddr(struct robust_list *entry,
+ compat_long_t futex_offset)
+{
+ compat_uptr_t base = ptr_to_compat(entry);
+ void __user *uaddr = compat_ptr(base + futex_offset);
+
+ return uaddr;
+}
+
/*
* Walk curr->robust_list (very carefully, it's a userspace list!)
* and mark any locks found there dead, and notify any waiters.
@@ -61,18 +70,23 @@ void compat_exit_robust_list(struct task_struct *curr)
if (fetch_robust_entry(&upending, &pending,
&head->list_op_pending, &pip))
return;
- if (pending)
- handle_futex_death((void __user *)pending + futex_offset, curr, pip);
+ if (pending) {
+ void __user *uaddr = futex_uaddr(pending,
+ futex_offset);
+ handle_futex_death(uaddr, curr, pip);
+ }
while (entry != (struct robust_list __user *) &head->list) {
/*
* A pending lock might already be on the list, so
* dont process it twice:
*/
- if (entry != pending)
- if (handle_futex_death((void __user *)entry + futex_offset,
- curr, pi))
+ if (entry != pending) {
+ void __user *uaddr = futex_uaddr(entry,
+ futex_offset);
+ if (handle_futex_death(uaddr, curr, pi))
return;
+ }
/*
* Fetch the next entry in the list: