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Helge Deller 23027309b0 parisc: Fix random data corruption from exception handler 
commit 8b1d723956 upstream.

The current exception handler implementation, which assists when accessing
user space memory, may exhibit random data corruption if the compiler decides
to use a different register than the specified register %r29 (defined in
ASM_EXCEPTIONTABLE_REG) for the error code. If the compiler choose another
register, the fault handler will nevertheless store -EFAULT into %r29 and thus
trash whatever this register is used for.
Looking at the assembly I found that this happens sometimes in emulate_ldd().

To solve the issue, the easiest solution would be if it somehow is
possible to tell the fault handler which register is used to hold the error
code. Using %0 or %1 in the inline assembly is not posssible as it will show
up as e.g. %r29 (with the "%r" prefix), which the GNU assembler can not
convert to an integer.

This patch takes another, better and more flexible approach:
We extend the __ex_table (which is out of the execution path) by one 32-word.
In this word we tell the compiler to insert the assembler instruction
"or %r0,%r0,%reg", where %reg references the register which the compiler
choosed for the error return code.
In case of an access failure, the fault handler finds the __ex_table entry and
can examine the opcode. The used register is encoded in the lowest 5 bits, and
the fault handler can then store -EFAULT into this register.

Since we extend the __ex_table to 3 words we can't use the BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
config option any longer.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v6.0+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2024-02-23 09:12:50 +01:00
arch parisc: Fix random data corruption from exception handler 2024-02-23 09:12:50 +01:00
block block: fix partial zone append completion handling in req_bio_endio() 2024-02-23 09:12:49 +01:00
certs certs: Fix build error when PKCS#11 URI contains semicolon 2023-02-09 11:28:11 +01:00
crypto crypto: api - Disallow identical driver names 2024-01-31 16:16:58 -08:00
Documentation wifi: mwifiex: Support SD8978 chipset 2024-02-23 09:12:48 +01:00
drivers wifi: mwifiex: fix uninitialized firmware_stat 2024-02-23 09:12:49 +01:00
fs fs/proc: do_task_stat: move thread_group_cputime_adjusted() outside of lock_task_sighand() 2024-02-23 09:12:47 +01:00
include netfilter: ipset: fix performance regression in swap operation 2024-02-23 09:12:49 +01:00
init update workarounds for gcc "asm goto" issue 2024-02-23 09:12:28 +01:00
io_uring io_uring/net: fix multishot accept overflow handling 2024-02-23 09:12:43 +01:00
ipc ipc: fix memory leak in init_mqueue_fs() 2022-12-31 13:32:01 +01:00
kernel tracing: Inform kmemleak of saved_cmdlines allocation 2024-02-23 09:12:47 +01:00
lib crypto: lib/mpi - Fix unexpected pointer access in mpi_ec_init 2024-02-23 09:12:49 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm/writeback: fix possible divide-by-zero in wb_dirty_limits(), again 2024-02-23 09:12:32 +01:00
net netfilter: ipset: Missing gc cancellations fixed 2024-02-23 09:12:50 +01:00
rust rust: allocator: Prevent mis-aligned allocation 2023-08-11 12:08:18 +02:00
samples work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs 2024-02-23 09:12:28 +01:00
scripts modpost: Add '.ltext' and '.ltext.*' to TEXT_SECTIONS 2024-02-23 09:12:38 +01:00
security lsm: fix the logic in security_inode_getsecctx() 2024-02-23 09:12:37 +01:00
sound ASoC: amd: yc: Add DMI quirk for Lenovo Ideapad Pro 5 16ARP8 2024-02-23 09:12:45 +01:00
tools selftests/mm: Update va_high_addr_switch.sh to check CPU for la57 flag 2024-02-23 09:12:48 +01:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt kvm/vfio: ensure kvg instance stays around in kvm_vfio_group_add() 2023-09-13 09:42:46 +02:00
.clang-format inet: ping: use hlist_nulls rcu iterator during lookup 2022-12-01 12:42:46 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
.mailmap 9 hotfixes. 6 for MM, 3 for other areas. Four of these patches address 2022-12-10 17:10:52 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Michal Marek from Kbuild maintainers 2022-11-16 14:53:00 +09:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS genirq/affinity: Move group_cpus_evenly() into lib/ 2024-01-10 17:10:33 +01:00
Makefile Linux 6.1.78 2024-02-16 19:06:32 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.