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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2015-02-23 15:13:40 +0000
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>2015-03-05 15:37:01 +0100
commit59e4cc3ee0a1a1550272701ef918464c79d5c73b (patch)
tree9994e7ef8cc172c8dfbb49a6def579ff62b9f42f /arch
parentdada8422d120086fa688d2e2e5604da0941cd5ef (diff)
arm64: compat Fix siginfo_t -> compat_siginfo_t conversion on big endian
commit 9d42d48a342aee208c1154696196497fdc556bbf upstream. The native (64-bit) sigval_t union contains sival_int (32-bit) and sival_ptr (64-bit). When a compat application invokes a syscall that takes a sigval_t value (as part of a larger structure, e.g. compat_sys_mq_notify, compat_sys_timer_create), the compat_sigval_t union is converted to the native sigval_t with sival_int overlapping with either the least or the most significant half of sival_ptr, depending on endianness. When the corresponding signal is delivered to a compat application, on big endian the current (compat_uptr_t)sival_ptr cast always returns 0 since sival_int corresponds to the top part of sival_ptr. This patch fixes copy_siginfo_to_user32() so that sival_int is copied to the compat_siginfo_t structure. Reported-by: Bamvor Jian Zhang <bamvor.zhangjian@huawei.com> Tested-by: Bamvor Jian Zhang <bamvor.zhangjian@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c
index e393174fe859..3d478102b1c0 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c
@@ -179,8 +179,7 @@ int copy_siginfo_to_user32(compat_siginfo_t __user *to, siginfo_t *from)
case __SI_TIMER:
err |= __put_user(from->si_tid, &to->si_tid);
err |= __put_user(from->si_overrun, &to->si_overrun);
- err |= __put_user((compat_uptr_t)(unsigned long)from->si_ptr,
- &to->si_ptr);
+ err |= __put_user(from->si_int, &to->si_int);
break;
case __SI_POLL:
err |= __put_user(from->si_band, &to->si_band);
@@ -209,7 +208,7 @@ int copy_siginfo_to_user32(compat_siginfo_t __user *to, siginfo_t *from)
case __SI_MESGQ: /* But this is */
err |= __put_user(from->si_pid, &to->si_pid);
err |= __put_user(from->si_uid, &to->si_uid);
- err |= __put_user((compat_uptr_t)(unsigned long)from->si_ptr, &to->si_ptr);
+ err |= __put_user(from->si_int, &to->si_int);
break;
default: /* this is just in case for now ... */
err |= __put_user(from->si_pid, &to->si_pid);