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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2019-07-09T04:48:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-09T04:48:15+00:00</published>
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Pull force_sig() argument change from Eric Biederman:
 "A source of error over the years has been that force_sig has taken a
  task parameter when it is only safe to use force_sig with the current
  task.

  The force_sig function is built for delivering synchronous signals
  such as SIGSEGV where the userspace application caused a synchronous
  fault (such as a page fault) and the kernel responded with a signal.

  Because the name force_sig does not make this clear, and because the
  force_sig takes a task parameter the function force_sig has been
  abused for sending other kinds of signals over the years. Slowly those
  have been fixed when the oopses have been tracked down.

  This set of changes fixes the remaining abusers of force_sig and
  carefully rips out the task parameter from force_sig and friends
  making this kind of error almost impossible in the future"

* 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (27 commits)
  signal/x86: Move tsk inside of CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE in do_sigbus
  signal: Remove the signal number and task parameters from force_sig_info
  signal: Factor force_sig_info_to_task out of force_sig_info
  signal: Generate the siginfo in force_sig
  signal: Move the computation of force into send_signal and correct it.
  signal: Properly set TRACE_SIGNAL_LOSE_INFO in __send_signal
  signal: Remove the task parameter from force_sig_fault
  signal: Use force_sig_fault_to_task for the two calls that don't deliver to current
  signal: Explicitly call force_sig_fault on current
  signal/unicore32: Remove tsk parameter from __do_user_fault
  signal/arm: Remove tsk parameter from __do_user_fault
  signal/arm: Remove tsk parameter from ptrace_break
  signal/nds32: Remove tsk parameter from send_sigtrap
  signal/riscv: Remove tsk parameter from do_trap
  signal/sh: Remove tsk parameter from force_sig_info_fault
  signal/um: Remove task parameter from send_sigtrap
  signal/x86: Remove task parameter from send_sigtrap
  signal: Remove task parameter from force_sig_mceerr
  signal: Remove task parameter from force_sig
  signal: Remove task parameter from force_sigsegv
  ...
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<pre>
Pull force_sig() argument change from Eric Biederman:
 "A source of error over the years has been that force_sig has taken a
  task parameter when it is only safe to use force_sig with the current
  task.

  The force_sig function is built for delivering synchronous signals
  such as SIGSEGV where the userspace application caused a synchronous
  fault (such as a page fault) and the kernel responded with a signal.

  Because the name force_sig does not make this clear, and because the
  force_sig takes a task parameter the function force_sig has been
  abused for sending other kinds of signals over the years. Slowly those
  have been fixed when the oopses have been tracked down.

  This set of changes fixes the remaining abusers of force_sig and
  carefully rips out the task parameter from force_sig and friends
  making this kind of error almost impossible in the future"

* 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (27 commits)
  signal/x86: Move tsk inside of CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE in do_sigbus
  signal: Remove the signal number and task parameters from force_sig_info
  signal: Factor force_sig_info_to_task out of force_sig_info
  signal: Generate the siginfo in force_sig
  signal: Move the computation of force into send_signal and correct it.
  signal: Properly set TRACE_SIGNAL_LOSE_INFO in __send_signal
  signal: Remove the task parameter from force_sig_fault
  signal: Use force_sig_fault_to_task for the two calls that don't deliver to current
  signal: Explicitly call force_sig_fault on current
  signal/unicore32: Remove tsk parameter from __do_user_fault
  signal/arm: Remove tsk parameter from __do_user_fault
  signal/arm: Remove tsk parameter from ptrace_break
  signal/nds32: Remove tsk parameter from send_sigtrap
  signal/riscv: Remove tsk parameter from do_trap
  signal/sh: Remove tsk parameter from force_sig_info_fault
  signal/um: Remove task parameter from send_sigtrap
  signal/x86: Remove task parameter from send_sigtrap
  signal: Remove task parameter from force_sig_mceerr
  signal: Remove task parameter from force_sig
  signal: Remove task parameter from force_sigsegv
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 153</title>
<updated>2019-05-30T18:26:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-27T06:55:02+00:00</published>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 or at your option any
  later version this program is distributed in the hope that it will
  be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty
  of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu
  general public license for more details you should have received a
  copy of the gnu general public license along with this program if
  not write to the free software foundation inc 675 mass ave cambridge
  ma 02139 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 77 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Armijn Hemel &lt;armijn@tjaldur.nl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana &lt;rfontana@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.837555891@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 or at your option any
  later version this program is distributed in the hope that it will
  be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty
  of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu
  general public license for more details you should have received a
  copy of the gnu general public license along with this program if
  not write to the free software foundation inc 675 mass ave cambridge
  ma 02139 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 77 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Armijn Hemel &lt;armijn@tjaldur.nl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana &lt;rfontana@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.837555891@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: Remove the task parameter from force_sig_fault</title>
<updated>2019-05-29T14:31:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-23T16:04:24+00:00</published>
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As synchronous exceptions really only make sense against the current
task (otherwise how are you synchronous) remove the task parameter
from from force_sig_fault to make it explicit that is what is going
on.

The two known exceptions that deliver a synchronous exception to a
stopped ptraced task have already been changed to
force_sig_fault_to_task.

The callers have been changed with the following emacs regular expression
(with obvious variations on the architectures that take more arguments)
to avoid typos:

force_sig_fault[(]\([^,]+\)[,]\([^,]+\)[,]\([^,]+\)[,]\W+current[)]
-&gt;
force_sig_fault(\1,\2,\3)

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<pre>
As synchronous exceptions really only make sense against the current
task (otherwise how are you synchronous) remove the task parameter
from from force_sig_fault to make it explicit that is what is going
on.

The two known exceptions that deliver a synchronous exception to a
stopped ptraced task have already been changed to
force_sig_fault_to_task.

The callers have been changed with the following emacs regular expression
(with obvious variations on the architectures that take more arguments)
to avoid typos:

force_sig_fault[(]\([^,]+\)[,]\([^,]+\)[,]\([^,]+\)[,]\W+current[)]
-&gt;
force_sig_fault(\1,\2,\3)

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal/parisc: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate</title>
<updated>2018-04-25T15:44:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-20T00:14:26+00:00</published>
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Filling in struct siginfo before calling force_sig_info a tedious and
error prone process, where once in a great while the wrong fields
are filled out, and siginfo has been inconsistently cleared.

Simplify this process by using the helper force_sig_fault.  Which
takes as a parameters all of the information it needs, ensures
all of the fiddly bits of filling in struct siginfo are done properly
and then calls force_sig_info.

In short about a 5 line reduction in code for every time force_sig_info
is called, which makes the calling function clearer.

Cc: James Bottomley &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;   # parisc
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Filling in struct siginfo before calling force_sig_info a tedious and
error prone process, where once in a great while the wrong fields
are filled out, and siginfo has been inconsistently cleared.

Simplify this process by using the helper force_sig_fault.  Which
takes as a parameters all of the information it needs, ensures
all of the fiddly bits of filling in struct siginfo are done properly
and then calls force_sig_info.

In short about a 5 line reduction in code for every time force_sig_info
is called, which makes the calling function clearer.

Cc: James Bottomley &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;   # parisc
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: Ensure every siginfo we send has all bits initialized</title>
<updated>2018-04-25T15:40:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-17T20:26:37+00:00</published>
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Call clear_siginfo to ensure every stack allocated siginfo is properly
initialized before being passed to the signal sending functions.

Note: It is not safe to depend on C initializers to initialize struct
siginfo on the stack because C is allowed to skip holes when
initializing a structure.

The initialization of struct siginfo in tracehook_report_syscall_exit
was moved from the helper user_single_step_siginfo into
tracehook_report_syscall_exit itself, to make it clear that the local
variable siginfo gets fully initialized.

In a few cases the scope of struct siginfo has been reduced to make it
clear that siginfo siginfo is not used on other paths in the function
in which it is declared.

Instances of using memset to initialize siginfo have been replaced
with calls clear_siginfo for clarity.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<pre>
Call clear_siginfo to ensure every stack allocated siginfo is properly
initialized before being passed to the signal sending functions.

Note: It is not safe to depend on C initializers to initialize struct
siginfo on the stack because C is allowed to skip holes when
initializing a structure.

The initialization of struct siginfo in tracehook_report_syscall_exit
was moved from the helper user_single_step_siginfo into
tracehook_report_syscall_exit itself, to make it clear that the local
variable siginfo gets fully initialized.

In a few cases the scope of struct siginfo has been reduced to make it
clear that siginfo siginfo is not used on other paths in the function
in which it is declared.

Instances of using memset to initialize siginfo have been replaced
with calls clear_siginfo for clarity.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to &lt;linux/sched/debug.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-02T07:42:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-08T17:51:35+00:00</published>
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We are going to split &lt;linux/sched/debug.h&gt; out of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder &lt;linux/sched/debug.h&gt; file that just
maps to &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
We are going to split &lt;linux/sched/debug.h&gt; out of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder &lt;linux/sched/debug.h&gt; file that just
maps to &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to &lt;linux/sched/signal.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-02T07:42:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-08T17:51:30+00:00</published>
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We are going to split &lt;linux/sched/signal.h&gt; out of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder &lt;linux/sched/signal.h&gt; file that just
maps to &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
We are going to split &lt;linux/sched/signal.h&gt; out of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder &lt;linux/sched/signal.h&gt; file that just
maps to &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Replace &lt;asm/uaccess.h&gt; with &lt;linux/uaccess.h&gt; globally</title>
<updated>2016-12-24T19:46:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-24T19:46:01+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

  PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*&lt;asm/uaccess.h&gt;'
  sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include &lt;linux/uaccess.h&gt;!" \
        $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

  PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*&lt;asm/uaccess.h&gt;'
  sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include &lt;linux/uaccess.h&gt;!" \
        $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Move die_if_kernel() prototype into traps.h header</title>
<updated>2016-06-05T06:49:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-04T15:38:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=58f1c654d13a42575d507ea61f6de0332a761e75'/>
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<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Fix pagefault crash in unaligned __get_user() call</title>
<updated>2016-06-05T06:48:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-04T15:21:33+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
One of the debian buildd servers had this crash in the syslog without
any other information:

 Unaligned handler failed, ret = -2
 clock_adjtime (pid 22578): Unaligned data reference (code 28)
 CPU: 1 PID: 22578 Comm: clock_adjtime Tainted: G  E  4.5.0-2-parisc64-smp #1 Debian 4.5.4-1
 task: 000000007d9960f8 ti: 00000001bde7c000 task.ti: 00000001bde7c000

      YZrvWESTHLNXBCVMcbcbcbcbOGFRQPDI
 PSW: 00001000000001001111100000001111 Tainted: G            E
 r00-03  000000ff0804f80f 00000001bde7c2b0 00000000402d2be8 00000001bde7c2b0
 r04-07  00000000409e1fd0 00000000fa6f7fff 00000001bde7c148 00000000fa6f7fff
 r08-11  0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 00000000fac9bb7b 000000000002b4d4
 r12-15  000000000015241c 000000000015242c 000000000000002d 00000000fac9bb7b
 r16-19  0000000000028800 0000000000000001 0000000000000070 00000001bde7c218
 r20-23  0000000000000000 00000001bde7c210 0000000000000002 0000000000000000
 r24-27  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001bde7c148 00000000409e1fd0
 r28-31  0000000000000001 00000001bde7c320 00000001bde7c350 00000001bde7c218
 sr00-03  0000000001200000 0000000001200000 0000000000000000 0000000001200000
 sr04-07  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000

 IASQ: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 IAOQ: 00000000402d2e84 00000000402d2e88
  IIR: 0ca0d089    ISR: 0000000001200000  IOR: 00000000fa6f7fff
  CPU:        1   CR30: 00000001bde7c000 CR31: ffffffffffffffff
  ORIG_R28: 00000002369fe628
  IAOQ[0]: compat_get_timex+0x2dc/0x3c0
  IAOQ[1]: compat_get_timex+0x2e0/0x3c0
  RP(r2): compat_get_timex+0x40/0x3c0
 Backtrace:
  [&lt;00000000402d4608&gt;] compat_SyS_clock_adjtime+0x40/0xc0
  [&lt;0000000040205024&gt;] syscall_exit+0x0/0x14

This means the userspace program clock_adjtime called the clock_adjtime()
syscall and then crashed inside the compat_get_timex() function.
Syscalls should never crash programs, but instead return EFAULT.

The IIR register contains the executed instruction, which disassebles
into "ldw 0(sr3,r5),r9".
This load-word instruction is part of __get_user() which tried to read the word
at %r5/IOR (0xfa6f7fff). This means the unaligned handler jumped in.  The
unaligned handler is able to emulate all ldw instructions, but it fails if it
fails to read the source e.g. because of page fault.

The following program reproduces the problem:

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/syscall.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;

int main(void) {
        /* allocate 8k */
        char *ptr = mmap(NULL, 2*4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
        /* free second half (upper 4k) and make it invalid. */
        munmap(ptr+4096, 4096);
        /* syscall where first int is unaligned and clobbers into invalid memory region */
        /* syscall should return EFAULT */
        return syscall(__NR_clock_adjtime, 0, ptr+4095);
}

To fix this issue we simply need to check if the faulting instruction address
is in the exception fixup table when the unaligned handler failed. If it
is, call the fixup routine instead of crashing.

While looking at the unaligned handler I found another issue as well: The
target register should not be modified if the handler was unsuccessful.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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One of the debian buildd servers had this crash in the syslog without
any other information:

 Unaligned handler failed, ret = -2
 clock_adjtime (pid 22578): Unaligned data reference (code 28)
 CPU: 1 PID: 22578 Comm: clock_adjtime Tainted: G  E  4.5.0-2-parisc64-smp #1 Debian 4.5.4-1
 task: 000000007d9960f8 ti: 00000001bde7c000 task.ti: 00000001bde7c000

      YZrvWESTHLNXBCVMcbcbcbcbOGFRQPDI
 PSW: 00001000000001001111100000001111 Tainted: G            E
 r00-03  000000ff0804f80f 00000001bde7c2b0 00000000402d2be8 00000001bde7c2b0
 r04-07  00000000409e1fd0 00000000fa6f7fff 00000001bde7c148 00000000fa6f7fff
 r08-11  0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 00000000fac9bb7b 000000000002b4d4
 r12-15  000000000015241c 000000000015242c 000000000000002d 00000000fac9bb7b
 r16-19  0000000000028800 0000000000000001 0000000000000070 00000001bde7c218
 r20-23  0000000000000000 00000001bde7c210 0000000000000002 0000000000000000
 r24-27  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001bde7c148 00000000409e1fd0
 r28-31  0000000000000001 00000001bde7c320 00000001bde7c350 00000001bde7c218
 sr00-03  0000000001200000 0000000001200000 0000000000000000 0000000001200000
 sr04-07  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000

 IASQ: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 IAOQ: 00000000402d2e84 00000000402d2e88
  IIR: 0ca0d089    ISR: 0000000001200000  IOR: 00000000fa6f7fff
  CPU:        1   CR30: 00000001bde7c000 CR31: ffffffffffffffff
  ORIG_R28: 00000002369fe628
  IAOQ[0]: compat_get_timex+0x2dc/0x3c0
  IAOQ[1]: compat_get_timex+0x2e0/0x3c0
  RP(r2): compat_get_timex+0x40/0x3c0
 Backtrace:
  [&lt;00000000402d4608&gt;] compat_SyS_clock_adjtime+0x40/0xc0
  [&lt;0000000040205024&gt;] syscall_exit+0x0/0x14

This means the userspace program clock_adjtime called the clock_adjtime()
syscall and then crashed inside the compat_get_timex() function.
Syscalls should never crash programs, but instead return EFAULT.

The IIR register contains the executed instruction, which disassebles
into "ldw 0(sr3,r5),r9".
This load-word instruction is part of __get_user() which tried to read the word
at %r5/IOR (0xfa6f7fff). This means the unaligned handler jumped in.  The
unaligned handler is able to emulate all ldw instructions, but it fails if it
fails to read the source e.g. because of page fault.

The following program reproduces the problem:

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/syscall.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;

int main(void) {
        /* allocate 8k */
        char *ptr = mmap(NULL, 2*4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
        /* free second half (upper 4k) and make it invalid. */
        munmap(ptr+4096, 4096);
        /* syscall where first int is unaligned and clobbers into invalid memory region */
        /* syscall should return EFAULT */
        return syscall(__NR_clock_adjtime, 0, ptr+4095);
}

To fix this issue we simply need to check if the faulting instruction address
is in the exception fixup table when the unaligned handler failed. If it
is, call the fixup routine instead of crashing.

While looking at the unaligned handler I found another issue as well: The
target register should not be modified if the handler was unsuccessful.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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