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authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>2018-10-15 11:32:13 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-10-18 09:16:27 +0200
commitfaac72dc91507049c55f3de6731428f50f33fc88 (patch)
treefa871d4c315d594af0278d345d3fb3b54be79861 /arch/arm/kernel
parentb690ec0dc735545bca2b78bee639d1545bda97e6 (diff)
ARM: signal: copy registers using __copy_from_user()
Commit c32cd419d6650e42b9cdebb83c672ec945e6bd7e upstream. __get_user_error() is used as a fast accessor to make copying structure members in the signal handling path as efficient as possible. However, with software PAN and the recent Spectre variant 1, the efficiency is reduced as these are no longer fast accessors. In the case of software PAN, it has to switch the domain register around each access, and with Spectre variant 1, it would have to repeat the access_ok() check for each access. It becomes much more efficient to use __copy_from_user() instead, so let's use this for the ARM integer registers. Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David A. Long <dave.long@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/signal.c38
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
index b67ae12503f3..80da0cdac662 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ struct rt_sigframe {
static int restore_sigframe(struct pt_regs *regs, struct sigframe __user *sf)
{
+ struct sigcontext context;
char __user *aux;
sigset_t set;
int err;
@@ -192,23 +193,26 @@ static int restore_sigframe(struct pt_regs *regs, struct sigframe __user *sf)
if (err == 0)
set_current_blocked(&set);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r0, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r0, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r1, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r1, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r2, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r2, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r3, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r3, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r4, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r4, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r5, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r5, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r6, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r6, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r7, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r7, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r8, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r8, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r9, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r9, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r10, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r10, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_fp, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_fp, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_ip, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_ip, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_sp, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_sp, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_lr, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_lr, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_pc, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_pc, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_cpsr, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_cpsr, err);
+ err |= __copy_from_user(&context, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext, sizeof(context));
+ if (err == 0) {
+ regs->ARM_r0 = context.arm_r0;
+ regs->ARM_r1 = context.arm_r1;
+ regs->ARM_r2 = context.arm_r2;
+ regs->ARM_r3 = context.arm_r3;
+ regs->ARM_r4 = context.arm_r4;
+ regs->ARM_r5 = context.arm_r5;
+ regs->ARM_r6 = context.arm_r6;
+ regs->ARM_r7 = context.arm_r7;
+ regs->ARM_r8 = context.arm_r8;
+ regs->ARM_r9 = context.arm_r9;
+ regs->ARM_r10 = context.arm_r10;
+ regs->ARM_fp = context.arm_fp;
+ regs->ARM_ip = context.arm_ip;
+ regs->ARM_sp = context.arm_sp;
+ regs->ARM_lr = context.arm_lr;
+ regs->ARM_pc = context.arm_pc;
+ regs->ARM_cpsr = context.arm_cpsr;
+ }
err |= !valid_user_regs(regs);