[Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/x86: don't corrupt %eip when returning from a signal handler

[David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>

In 32 bit guests, if a userspace process has %eax == -ERESTARTSYS
(-512) or -ERESTARTNOINTR (-513) when it is interrupted by an event
/and/ the process has a pending signal then %eip (and %eax) are
corrupted when returning to the main process after handling the
signal.  The application may then crash with SIGSEGV or a SIGILL or it
may have subtly incorrect behaviour (depending on what instruction it
returned to).

The occurs because handle_signal() is incorrectly thinking that there
is a system call that needs to restarted so it adjusts %eip and %eax
to re-execute the system call instruction (even though user space had
not done a system call).

If %eax == -514 (-ERESTARTNOHAND (-514) or -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK
(-516) then handle_signal() only corrupted %eax (by setting it to
-EINTR).  This may cause the application to crash or have incorrect
behaviour.

handle_signal() assumes that regs->orig_ax >= 0 means a system call so
any kernel entry point that is not for a system call must push a
negative value for orig_ax.  For example, for physical interrupts on
bare metal the inverse of the vector is pushed and page_fault() sets
regs->orig_ax to -1, overwriting the hardware provided error code.

xen_hypervisor_callback() was incorrectly pushing 0 for orig_ax
instead of -1.  For consistency, we also change
xen_failsafe_callback().

Classic Xen kernels pushed %eax which works as %eax cannot be both
non-negative and -RESTARTSYS (etc.), but using -1 avoids the
additional tests in handle_signal().

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
---
 arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
index 2c63407..6a19e66 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
@@ -1042,7 +1042,7 @@ ENTRY(xen_sysenter_target)
 
 ENTRY(xen_hypervisor_callback)
        CFI_STARTPROC
-       pushl_cfi $0
+       pushl_cfi $-1 /* orig_ax = -1 => not a system call */
        SAVE_ALL
        TRACE_IRQS_OFF
 
@@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@ ENDPROC(xen_hypervisor_callback)
 # We distinguish between categories by maintaining a status value in EAX.
 ENTRY(xen_failsafe_callback)
        CFI_STARTPROC
-       pushl_cfi %eax
+       pushl_cfi $-1  /* orig_ax = -1 => not a system call */
        movl $1,%eax
 1:     mov 4(%esp),%ds
 2:     mov 8(%esp),%es
-- 
1.7.2.5


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