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author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-06-02 08:22:59 +0200 |
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committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2008-06-09 03:32:36 +0200 |
commit | 0be234a46596cd19eb56d2cf46836de8221afb6b (patch) | |
tree | 5752259ba499e1e0e033df1fb59b8c57521a91ba /arch/powerpc | |
parent | [POWERPC] boot/Makefile CONFIG_ variable fixes (diff) | |
download | linux-0be234a46596cd19eb56d2cf46836de8221afb6b.tar.xz linux-0be234a46596cd19eb56d2cf46836de8221afb6b.zip |
[POWERPC] Fix incorrect enabling of VMX when building signal or user context
When building a signal or a ucontext, we can incorrectly set the MSR_VEC
bit of the kernel pt_regs->msr before returning to userspace if the task
-ever- used VMX.
This can lead to funny result if that stack used it in the past, then
"lost" it (ie. it wasn't enabled after a context switch for example)
and then called get_context. It can end up with VMX enabled and the
registers containing values from some other task.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c index faeb8f207ea4..da7c058e3731 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c @@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ static long setup_sigcontext(struct sigcontext __user *sc, struct pt_regs *regs, #ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC elf_vrreg_t __user *v_regs = (elf_vrreg_t __user *)(((unsigned long)sc->vmx_reserve + 15) & ~0xful); #endif + unsigned long msr = regs->msr; long err = 0; flush_fp_to_thread(current); @@ -102,7 +103,7 @@ static long setup_sigcontext(struct sigcontext __user *sc, struct pt_regs *regs, /* set MSR_VEC in the MSR value in the frame to indicate that sc->v_reg) * contains valid data. */ - regs->msr |= MSR_VEC; + msr |= MSR_VEC; } /* We always copy to/from vrsave, it's 0 if we don't have or don't * use altivec. @@ -114,6 +115,7 @@ static long setup_sigcontext(struct sigcontext __user *sc, struct pt_regs *regs, err |= __put_user(&sc->gp_regs, &sc->regs); WARN_ON(!FULL_REGS(regs)); err |= __copy_to_user(&sc->gp_regs, regs, GP_REGS_SIZE); + err |= __put_user(msr, &sc->gp_regs[PT_MSR]); err |= __copy_to_user(&sc->fp_regs, ¤t->thread.fpr, FP_REGS_SIZE); err |= __put_user(signr, &sc->signal); err |= __put_user(handler, &sc->handler); |