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authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>2018-11-07 11:43:57 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-11-23 08:20:39 +0100
commit50f032cc506a0f8c5a44c2f19950ae0f287b43db (patch)
tree69d144fc3e22b2b61c2cb66ccf9f5510080060cc /arch/arm/kernel
parent49b853905b9afc4a6898ce37f4be8721273badc3 (diff)
ARM: signal: copy registers using __copy_from_user()
Commit c32cd419d6650e42b9cdebb83c672ec945e6bd7e upstream. __get_user_error() is used as a fast accessor to make copying structure members in the signal handling path as efficient as possible. However, with software PAN and the recent Spectre variant 1, the efficiency is reduced as these are no longer fast accessors. In the case of software PAN, it has to switch the domain register around each access, and with Spectre variant 1, it would have to repeat the access_ok() check for each access. It becomes much more efficient to use __copy_from_user() instead, so let's use this for the ARM integer registers. Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David A. Long <dave.long@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/signal.c38
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
index 7b8f2141427b..a592bc0287f8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ struct rt_sigframe {
static int restore_sigframe(struct pt_regs *regs, struct sigframe __user *sf)
{
+ struct sigcontext context;
struct aux_sigframe __user *aux;
sigset_t set;
int err;
@@ -149,23 +150,26 @@ static int restore_sigframe(struct pt_regs *regs, struct sigframe __user *sf)
if (err == 0)
set_current_blocked(&set);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r0, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r0, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r1, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r1, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r2, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r2, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r3, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r3, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r4, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r4, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r5, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r5, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r6, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r6, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r7, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r7, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r8, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r8, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r9, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r9, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_r10, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_r10, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_fp, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_fp, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_ip, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_ip, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_sp, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_sp, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_lr, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_lr, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_pc, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_pc, err);
- __get_user_error(regs->ARM_cpsr, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext.arm_cpsr, err);
+ err |= __copy_from_user(&context, &sf->uc.uc_mcontext, sizeof(context));
+ if (err == 0) {
+ regs->ARM_r0 = context.arm_r0;
+ regs->ARM_r1 = context.arm_r1;
+ regs->ARM_r2 = context.arm_r2;
+ regs->ARM_r3 = context.arm_r3;
+ regs->ARM_r4 = context.arm_r4;
+ regs->ARM_r5 = context.arm_r5;
+ regs->ARM_r6 = context.arm_r6;
+ regs->ARM_r7 = context.arm_r7;
+ regs->ARM_r8 = context.arm_r8;
+ regs->ARM_r9 = context.arm_r9;
+ regs->ARM_r10 = context.arm_r10;
+ regs->ARM_fp = context.arm_fp;
+ regs->ARM_ip = context.arm_ip;
+ regs->ARM_sp = context.arm_sp;
+ regs->ARM_lr = context.arm_lr;
+ regs->ARM_pc = context.arm_pc;
+ regs->ARM_cpsr = context.arm_cpsr;
+ }
err |= !valid_user_regs(regs);