6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com
commit dda014ba59331dee4f3b773a020e109932f4bd24 upstream.
The syscall instruction is used in Xen PV mode for doing hypercalls. Allow syscall to be used in the kernel in case it is tagged with an unwind hint for objtool.
This is part of XSA-466 / CVE-2024-53241.
Reported-by: Andrew Cooper andrew.cooper3@citrix.com Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com Co-developed-by: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- tools/objtool/check.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/tools/objtool/check.c +++ b/tools/objtool/check.c @@ -3820,9 +3820,12 @@ static int validate_branch(struct objtoo break;
case INSN_CONTEXT_SWITCH: - if (func && (!next_insn || !next_insn->hint)) { - WARN_INSN(insn, "unsupported instruction in callable function"); - return 1; + if (func) { + if (!next_insn || !next_insn->hint) { + WARN_INSN(insn, "unsupported instruction in callable function"); + return 1; + } + break; } return 0;