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From: David Engraf <david.engraf@sysgo.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: suzuki.poulose@arm.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org,
	mark.rutland@arm.com, elver@google.com, ebiederm@xmission.com,
	seanjc@google.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: signal: nofpsimd: Do not allocate fp/simd context when not available
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 08:56:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d02e8f6-2809-110d-408d-b379f9c9390c@sysgo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YhkYbhxA8+IQxVcb@sirena.org.uk>

On 25.02.22 18:57, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 11:40:08AM +0100, David Engraf wrote:
>> Commit 6d502b6ba1b2 ("arm64: signal: nofpsimd: Handle fp/simd context for
>> signal frames") introduced saving the fp/simd context for signal handling
>> only when support is available. But setup_sigframe_layout() always
>> reserves memory for fp/simd context. The additional memory is not touched
>> because preserve_fpsimd_context() is not called and thus the magic is
>> invalid.
>>
>> This may lead to an error when parse_user_sigframe() checks the fp/simd
>> area and does not find a valid magic number.
> 
> How did you spot this - do you have a system that can reproduce this?
> It'd be good to have coverage if there's testing but there's no easily
> obtainable userspace that I'm aware of.

I'm using a hypervisor which reports no fp/simd support. The user space 
was a busybox with init and shell. The shell gets a SIGSEGV because 
parse_user_sigframe() returns -EINVAL (bad magic).

user->sigframe in get_sigframe() uses the user stack pointer and the 
area was not zeroed. Thus the magic at fpsimd_offset is invalid.

Best regards
- David

  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-28  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-25 10:40 David Engraf
2022-02-25 17:57 ` Mark Brown
2022-02-28  7:56   ` David Engraf [this message]
2022-02-28 13:20 ` Mark Brown
2022-02-28 18:34 ` Catalin Marinas
2022-03-07 22:03 ` Will Deacon

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