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* [PATCH] selftests/x86/mm: fixup nx_stack test stability with SA_ONSTACK
@ 2023-12-15  9:45 Alexey Dobriyan
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From: Alexey Dobriyan @ 2023-12-15  9:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen
  Cc: linux-kernel, H. Peter Anvin

I forgot that using sigaltstack(2) requires opt-in with SA_ONSTACK.

If userspace stack is NX, then the test continues to work and
reports PASS.

If there is kernel bug and some pages of userspace stack are executable,
then test can be derailed because signal stack frame contents will pass
as random instruction with unpredictable consequences.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
---

 tools/testing/selftests/x86/nx_stack.c |   34 ++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

--- a/tools/testing/selftests/x86/nx_stack.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/x86/nx_stack.c
@@ -160,10 +160,25 @@ static void sigtrap(int _, siginfo_t *__, void *uc_)
 
 int main(void)
 {
+	{
+		/*
+		 * We don't know now much stack SIGSEGV handler uses.
+		 * Bump this by 1 page every time someone complains,
+		 * or rewrite it in assembly.
+		 */
+		const size_t len = SIGSTKSZ;
+		void *p = mmap(NULL, len, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
+		assert(p != MAP_FAILED);
+		stack_t ss = {};
+		ss.ss_sp = p;
+		ss.ss_size = len;
+		int rv = sigaltstack(&ss, NULL);
+		assert(rv == 0);
+	}
 	{
 		struct sigaction act = {};
 		sigemptyset(&act.sa_mask);
-		act.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO;
+		act.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO|SA_ONSTACK;
 		act.sa_sigaction = &sigsegv;
 		int rv = sigaction(SIGSEGV, &act, NULL);
 		assert(rv == 0);
@@ -171,7 +186,7 @@ int main(void)
 	{
 		struct sigaction act = {};
 		sigemptyset(&act.sa_mask);
-		act.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO;
+		act.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO|SA_ONSTACK;
 		act.sa_sigaction = &sigtrap;
 		int rv = sigaction(SIGTRAP, &act, NULL);
 		assert(rv == 0);
@@ -188,21 +203,6 @@ int main(void)
 		rv = setrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, &rlim);
 		assert(rv == 0);
 	}
-	{
-		/*
-		 * We don't know now much stack SIGSEGV handler uses.
-		 * Bump this by 1 page every time someone complains,
-		 * or rewrite it in assembly.
-		 */
-		const size_t len = SIGSTKSZ;
-		void *p = mmap(NULL, len, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
-		assert(p != MAP_FAILED);
-		stack_t ss = {};
-		ss.ss_sp = p;
-		ss.ss_size = len;
-		int rv = sigaltstack(&ss, NULL);
-		assert(rv == 0);
-	}
 	make_stack1();
 	/*
 	 * Unreachable, but if _this_ INT3 is ever reached, it's a bug somewhere.

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