[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "uprobes, x86: Fix _TIF_UPROBE vs _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Dec 10 17:26:29 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    uprobes, x86: Fix _TIF_UPROBE vs _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt3.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 5c36ae00094e629d9f161d562a1a23ba017bffab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:26:07 -0800
Subject: uprobes, x86: Fix _TIF_UPROBE vs _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME

commit 82975bc6a6df743b9a01810fb32cb65d0ec5d60b upstream.

x86 call do_notify_resume on paranoid returns if TIF_UPROBE is set but
not on non-paranoid returns.  I suspect that this is a mistake and that
the code only works because int3 is paranoid.

Setting _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME in the uprobe code was probably a workaround
for the x86 bug.  With that bug fixed, we can remove _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME
from the uprobes code.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 2 +-
 kernel/events/uprobes.c            | 1 -
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
index 854053889d4d..547e344a6dc6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ struct thread_info {
 /* Only used for 64 bit */
 #define _TIF_DO_NOTIFY_MASK						\
 	(_TIF_SIGPENDING | _TIF_MCE_NOTIFY | _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME |	\
-	 _TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY)
+	 _TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY | _TIF_UPROBE)

 /* flags to check in __switch_to() */
 #define _TIF_WORK_CTXSW							\
diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 6f3254e8c137..9a4d44f93015 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -1639,7 +1639,6 @@ bool uprobe_deny_signal(void)
 		if (__fatal_signal_pending(t) || arch_uprobe_xol_was_trapped(t)) {
 			utask->state = UTASK_SSTEP_TRAPPED;
 			set_tsk_thread_flag(t, TIF_UPROBE);
-			set_tsk_thread_flag(t, TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME);
 		}
 	}





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