* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: always define DECLARE_PCI_UNMAP* macros
x86: fixup config space size of CPU functions for AMD family 11h
x86, bts: fix wrmsr and spinlock over kmalloc
x86, pebs: fix PEBS record size configuration
x86, bts: turn macro into static inline function
x86, bts: exclude ds.c from build when disabled
arch/x86/kernel/pci-calgary_64.c: change simple_strtol to simple_strtoul
x86: use limited register constraint for setnz
xen: pin correct PGD on suspend
x86: revert irq number limitation
x86: fixing __cpuinit/__init tangle, xsave_cntxt_init()
x86: fix __cpuinit/__init tangle in init_thread_xstate()
oprofile: fix an overflow in ppro code
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: ignore out-of-range PstateStatus value
[CPUFREQ] Documentation: Add Blackfin to list of supported processors
Compress a set of consecutive switch cases into a case-range.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
All architectures now use the generic compat_sys_ptrace, as should every
new architecture that needs 32bit compat (if we'll ever get another).
Remove the now superflous __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_PTRACE define, and also
kill a comment about __ARCH_SYS_PTRACE that was added after
__ARCH_SYS_PTRACE was already gone.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
... so get xen-ops.h in agreement with xen/smp.c
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
usual "introduce .text.head, put it in front of TEXT_TEXT in vmlinux.lds.S,
make the stuff up to jump to start_kernel live in it", same as on other
targets.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
switch to __init for those; unlike powerpc sparc has no hotplug support
for that stuff and their ->probe() tends to call __init functions while
being declared __devinit.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
All noise since we don't have CPU hotplug there. However, they
did expose something very odd-looking in there - poke_viking()
does a bunch of identical btfixup each time it's called (i.e.
for each CPU). That one is left alone for now; just the trivial
misannotation fixes.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
called only from __init, calls __init. Incidentally, it ought to be static
in file.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
pure noise - alpha doesn't have CPU hotplug
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: fix boot crash on AMD IOMMU if CONFIG_GART_IOMMU is off
Currently these macros evaluate to a no-op except the kernel is compiled
with GART or Calgary support. But we also need these macros when we have
SWIOTLB, VT-d or AMD IOMMU in the kernel. Since we always compile at
least with SWIOTLB we can define these macros always.
This patch is also for stable backport for the same reason the SWIOTLB
default selection patch is.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We need an alignment of 16384 bytes for the initial kernel stack if
the kernel is configured for 16384 bytes stacks but the linker script
currently guarantees only an alignment of 8192 bytes.
So fix this and simply use THREAD_SIZE as alignment value which will
always do the right thing.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
When running several kvm processes with lots of memory overcommitment,
we have seen an oops during process shutdown:
------------[ cut here ]------------
Kernel BUG at 0000000000193434 [verbose debug info unavailable]
addressing exception: 0005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in: kvm sunrpc qeth_l2 dm_mod qeth ccwgroup
CPU: 10 Not tainted 2.6.28-rc4-kvm-bigiron-00521-g0ccca08-dirty #8
Process kuli (pid: 14460, task: 0000000149822338, ksp: 0000000024f57650)
Krnl PSW : 0704e00180000000 0000000000193434 (unmap_vmas+0x884/0xf10)
R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:2 PM:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 000000051008d000 000003e05e6034e0
00000000001933f6 00000000000001e9 0000000407259e0a 00000002be88c400
00000200001c1000 0000000407259608 0000000407259e08 0000000024f577f0
0000000407259e09 0000000000445fa8 00000000001933f6 0000000024f577f0
Krnl Code: 0000000000193426: eb22000c000d sllg %r2,%r2,12
000000000019342c: a7180000 lhi %r1,0
0000000000193430: b2290012 iske %r1,%r2
>0000000000193434: a7110002 tmll %r1,2
0000000000193438: a7840006 brc 8,193444
000000000019343c: 9602c000 oi 0(%r12),2
0000000000193440: 96806000 oi 0(%r6),128
0000000000193444: a7110004 tmll %r1,4
Call Trace:
([<00000000001933f6>] unmap_vmas+0x846/0xf10)
[<0000000000199680>] exit_mmap+0x210/0x458
[<000000000012a8f8>] mmput+0x54/0xfc
[<000000000012f714>] exit_mm+0x134/0x144
[<000000000013120c>] do_exit+0x240/0x878
[<00000000001318dc>] do_group_exit+0x98/0xc8
[<000000000013e6b0>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x30c/0x358
[<000000000010bee0>] do_signal+0xec/0x860
[<0000000000112e30>] sysc_sigpending+0xe/0x22
[<000002000013198a>] 0x2000013198a
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
Last Breaking-Event-Address:
[<00000000001a68d0>] free_swap_and_cache+0x1a0/0x1a4
<4>---[ end trace bc19f1d51ac9db7c ]---
The faulting instruction is the storage key operation (iske) in
ptep_rcp_copy (called by pte_clear, called by unmap_vmas). iske
reads dirty and reference bit information for a physical page and
requires a valid physical address. Since we are in pte_clear, we
cannot rely on the pte containing a valid address. Fortunately we
dont need these information in pte_clear - after all there is no
mapping. The best fix is to remove the needless call to ptep_rcp_copy
that contains the iske.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME reveals that sched_clock has a wrong offset during boot:
..
[ 0.000000] Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 775679
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: dasd=4b6c root=/dev/dasda1 ro noinitrd
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
[6920575.975232] console [ttyS0] enabled
[6920575.987586] Dentry cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
[6920575.991404] Inode-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
..
The s390 implementation of sched_clock uses the store clock instruction and
subtracts jiffies_timer_cc.
jiffies_timer_cc is a local variable in arch/s390/kernel/time.c and only used
for sched_clock and monotonic clock. For historical reasons there is an offset
on that value. With todays code this offset is unnecessary. By removing that
offset we can get a sched_clock which returns the nanoseconds after time_init.
This improves CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME.
Since sched_clock is the only user, I have also renamed jiffies_timer_cc to
sched_clock_base_cc. In addition, the local variable init_timer_cc is redundant
and can be romved as well.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
syscall_get_nr() currently returns a valid result only if the call
chain of the traced process includes do_syscall_trace_enter(). But
collect_syscall() can be called for any sleeping task, the result of
syscall_get_nr() in general is completely bogus.
To make syscall_get_nr() work for any sleeping task the traps field
in pt_regs is replace with svcnr - the system call number the process
is executing. If svcnr == 0 the process is not on a system call path.
The syscall_get_arguments and syscall_set_arguments use regs->gprs[2]
for the first system call parameter. This is incorrect since gprs[2]
may have been overwritten with the system call number if the call
chain includes do_syscall_trace_enter. Use regs->orig_gprs2 instead.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Impact: extend allowed configuration space access on 11h CPUs from 256 to 4K
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
A workaround for AMD CPU family 11h erratum 311 might cause that the
P-state Status Register shows a "current P-state" which is larger than
the "current P-state limit" in P-state Current Limit Register. For the
wrong P-state value there is no ACPI _PSS object defined and
powernow-k8/cpufreq can't determine the proper CPU frequency for that
state.
As a consequence this can cause a panic during boot (potentially with
all recent kernel versions -- at least I have reproduced it with
various 2.6.27 kernels and with the current .28 series), as an
example:
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Turion(tm)X2 Ultra DualCore Mobile ZM-82 processors (2 \
)
powernow-k8: 0 : pstate 0 (2200 MHz)
powernow-k8: 1 : pstate 1 (1100 MHz)
powernow-k8: 2 : pstate 2 (600 MHz)
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88086e7528b8
IP: [<ffffffff80486361>] cpufreq_stats_update+0x4a/0x5f
PGD 202063 PUD 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file:
CPU 1
Modules linked in:
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.28-rc3-dirty #16
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff80486361>] [<ffffffff80486361>] cpufreq_stats_update+0x4a/0\
f
Synaptics claims to have extended capabilities, but I'm not able to read them.<6\
6
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffff88006e7528c0
RDX: 00000000ffffffff RSI: ffff88006e54af00 RDI: ffffffff808f056c
RBP: 00000000fffee697 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: ffff88006e73f080
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 00000000002191c0 R12: ffff88006fb83c10
R13: 00000000ffffffff R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88006fb50740(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Unable to initialize Synaptics hardware.
CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: ffff88086e7528b8 CR3: 0000000000201000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo ffff88006fb82000, task ffff88006fb816d0)
Stack:
ffff88006e74da50 0000000000000000 ffff88006e54af00 ffffffff804863c7
ffff88006e74da50 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
ffff88006fb83c10 ffffffff8024b46c ffffffff808f0560 ffff88006fb83c10
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff804863c7>] ? cpufreq_stat_notifier_trans+0x51/0x83
[<ffffffff8024b46c>] ? notifier_call_chain+0x29/0x4c
[<ffffffff8024b561>] ? __srcu_notifier_call_chain+0x46/0x61
[<ffffffff8048496d>] ? cpufreq_notify_transition+0x93/0xa9
[<ffffffff8021ab8d>] ? powernowk8_target+0x1e8/0x5f3
[<ffffffff80486687>] ? cpufreq_governor_performance+0x1b/0x20
[<ffffffff80484886>] ? __cpufreq_governor+0x71/0xa8
[<ffffffff80484b21>] ? __cpufreq_set_policy+0x101/0x13e
[<ffffffff80485bcd>] ? cpufreq_add_dev+0x3f0/0x4cd
[<ffffffff8048577a>] ? handle_update+0x0/0x8
[<ffffffff803c2062>] ? sysdev_driver_register+0xb6/0x10d
[<ffffffff8056592c>] ? powernowk8_init+0x0/0x7e
[<ffffffff8048604c>] ? cpufreq_register_driver+0x8f/0x140
[<ffffffff80209056>] ? _stext+0x56/0x14f
[<ffffffff802c2234>] ? proc_register+0x122/0x17d
[<ffffffff802c23a0>] ? create_proc_entry+0x73/0x8a
[<ffffffff8025c259>] ? register_irq_proc+0x92/0xaa
[<ffffffff8025c2c8>] ? init_irq_proc+0x57/0x69
[<ffffffff807fc85f>] ? kernel_init+0x116/0x169
[<ffffffff8020cc79>] ? child_rip+0xa/0x11
[<ffffffff807fc749>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x169
[<ffffffff8020cc6f>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x11
Code: 05 c5 83 36 00 48 c7 c2 48 5d 86 80 48 8b 04 d8 48 8b 40 08 48 8b 34 02 48\
RIP [<ffffffff80486361>] cpufreq_stats_update+0x4a/0x5f
RSP <ffff88006fb83b20>
CR2: ffff88086e7528b8
---[ end trace 0678bac75e67a2f7 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
In short, aftereffect of the wrong P-state is that
cpufreq_stats_update() uses "-1" as index for some array in
cpufreq_stats_update (unsigned int cpu)
{
...
if (stat->time_in_state)
stat->time_in_state[stat->last_index] =
cputime64_add(stat->time_in_state[stat->last_index],
cputime_sub(cur_time, stat->last_time));
...
}
Fortunately, the wrong P-state value is returned only if the core is
in P-state 0. This fix solves the problem by detecting the
out-of-range P-state, ignoring it, and using "0" instead.
Cc: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Impact: fix sleeping-with-spinlock-held bugs/crashes
- Turn a wrmsr to write the DS_AREA MSR into a wrmsrl.
- Use irqsave variants of spinlocks.
- Do not allocate memory while holding spinlocks.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix DS hw enablement on 64-bit x86
Fix the PEBS record size in the DS configuration.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Replace a macro with a static inline function.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Move the CONFIG guard from the .c file into the makefile.
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi-suse@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix theoretical option string parsing overflow
Since bridge is unsigned, it would seem better to use simple_strtoul that
simple_strtol.
A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as
follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
// <smpl>
@r2@
long e;
position p;
@@
e = simple_strtol@p(...)
@@
position p != r2.p;
type T;
T e;
@@
e =
- simple_strtol@p
+ simple_strtoul
(...)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: muli@il.ibm.com
Cc: jdmason@kudzu.us
Cc: discuss@x86-64.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: build fix with certain compilers
GCC can decide to use %dil when "r" is used, which is not valid for
setnz.
This bug was brought out by Stephen Rothwell's merging of the
branch tracer into linux-next.
[ Thanks to Uros Bizjak for recommending 'q' over 'Q' ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Often we do things like put BUG() in the default clause of a case
statement. Since it was not declared __noreturn, this could sometimes
lead to bogus compiler warnings that variables were used
uninitialized.
There is a small problem in that we have to put a magic while(1); loop to
fool GCC into really thinking it is noreturn. This makes the new
BUG() function 3 instructions long instead of just 1, but I think it
is worth it as it is now unnecessary to do extra work to silence the
'used uninitialized' warnings.
I also re-wrote BUG_ON so that if it is given a constant condition, it
just does BUG() instead of loading a constant value in to a register
and testing it.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Impact: fix MSIx not enough irq numbers available regression
The manual revert of the sparse_irq patches missed to bring the number
of possible irqs back to the .27 status. This resulted in a regression
when two multichannel network cards were placed in a system with only
one IO_APIC - causing the networking driver to not have the right
IRQ and the device not coming up.
Remove the dynamic allocation logic leftovers and simply return
NR_IRQS in probe_nr_irqs() for now.
Fixes: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/19/354
Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@diku.dk>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] 5330/1: mach-pxa: Fixup reset for systems using reboot=cold or other strings
[ARM] pxa: fix incorrect PCMCIA PSKTSEL pin configuration for spitz
[ARM] pxa: fix I2C controller device being registered twice on Akita
pxafb: only initialize the smart panel thread when dealing with a smartpanel
pxafb: introduce LCD_TYPE_MASK and use it.
fix xen_get_eflags. It doesn't take any argument.
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
pv_cpu_ops.getreg(_IA64_REG_IP) returned constant.
But the returned ip valued should be the one in the caller, not of the callee.
This patch fixes that.
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
arch/ia64/kernel/pci-dma.c only needs to include iommu once.
Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Using printk from MCA/INIT context is unsafe since it can cause deadlock.
The ia64_mca_modify_original_stack is called from both of mca handler and
init handler, so it should use mprintk instead of printk.
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Itanium processors can handle some misaligned data accesses. They
also provide a mode where all such accesses are forced to trap. The
kernel was schizophrenic about use of this mode:
* Base kernel code ran in permissive mode where the only traps
generated were from those cases that the h/w could not handle.
* Interrupt, syscall and trap code ran in strict mode where all
unaligned accesses caused traps to the 0x5a00 unaligned reference
vector.
Use strict alignment checking throughout the kernel, but make
sure that we continue to let user mode use more relaxed mode
as the default.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
When we migrate an interrupt from one CPU to another, we set the
move_in_progress flag and clean up the vectors later once they're not
being used. If you're unlucky and call destroy_irq() before the vectors
become un-used, the move_in_progress flag is never cleared, which causes
the interrupt to become unusable.
This was discovered by Jesse Brandeburg for whom it manifested as an
MSI-X device refusing to use MSI-X mode when the driver was unloaded
and reloaded repeatedly.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
MIPS: csrc-r4k: Fix declaration depending on the wrong CONFIG_ symbol.
MIPS: csrc-r4k: Fix spelling mistake.
MIPS: RB532: Provide functions for gpio configuration
MIPS: IP22: Make indy_sc_ops variable static
MIPS: RB532: GPIO register offsets are relative to GPIOBASE
MIPS: Malta: Fix include paths in malta-amon.c
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: uaccess_64: fix return value in __copy_from_user()
x86: quirk for reboot stalls on a Dell Optiplex 330
Commit 81e192d6ce ("parisc: convert to
generic compat_sys_ptrace") introduced a bug which segfaults the parisc
64bit kernel when stracing 32bit applications:
Kernel Fault: Code=15 regs=00000000bafa42b0 (Addr=00000001baf5ab57)
YZrvWESTHLNXBCVMcbcbcbcbOGFRQPDI
PSW: 00001000000001101111111100001011 Tainted: G W
r00-03 000000ff0806ff0b 000000004068edc0 00000000401203f8 00000000fb3e2508
r04-07 0000000040686dc0 00000000baf5a800 fffffffffffffffc fffffffffb3e2508
r08-11 00000000baf5a800 000000000004b068 00000000000402b0 0000000000040d68
r12-15 0000000000042a9c 0000000000040a9c 0000000000040d60 0000000000042e9c
r16-19 000000000004b060 000000000004b058 0000000000042d9c ffffffffffffffff
r20-23 000000000800000b 0000000000000000 000000000800000b fffffffffb3e2508
r24-27 00000000fffffffc 0000000000000003 00000000fffffffc 0000000040686dc0
r28-31 00000001baf5a7ff 00000000bafa4280 00000000bafa42b0 00000000000001d7
sr00-03 0000000000fca000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000fca000
sr04-07 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
IASQ: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 IAOQ: 0000000040120400 0000000040120404
IIR: 4b9a06b0 ISR: 0000000000000000 IOR: 00000001baf5ab57
CPU: 0 CR30: 00000000bafa4000 CR31: 00000000d22344e0
ORIG_R28: 00000000fb3e2248
IAOQ[0]: compat_arch_ptrace+0xb8/0x160
IAOQ[1]: compat_arch_ptrace+0xbc/0x160
RP(r2): compat_arch_ptrace+0xb0/0x160
Backtrace:
[<00000000401612ac>] compat_sys_ptrace+0x15c/0x180
[<0000000040104ef8>] syscall_exit+0x0/0x14
The problem is that compat_arch_ptrace() enters with an addr value of
type compat_ulong_t and calls translate_usr_offset() to translate the
address offset into a struct pt_regs offset like this:
addr = translate_usr_offset(addr)
this means that any return value of translate_usr_offset() is stored
back as compat_ulong_t type into the addr variable.
But since translate_usr_offset() returns -1 for invalid offsets, addr
can now get the value 0xffffffff which then fails the next return-value
sanity check and thus the kernel tries to access invalid memory:
if (addr < 0)
break;
Fix this bug by modifying translate_usr_offset() to take and return
values of type compat_ulong_t, and by returning the value
"sizeof(struct pt_regs)" as an error indicator.
Additionally change the sanity check to check for return values
for >= sizeof(struct pt_regs).
This patch survived my compile and run-tests.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
