This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/entry: Use SYSCALL_DEFINE() macros for sys_modify_ldt()

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: x86-entry-use-syscall_define-macros-for-sys_modify_ldt.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Wed Dec 6 17:39:55 CET 2017

From: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:21:07 -0700 Subject: x86/entry: Use SYSCALL_DEFINE() macros for sys_modify_ldt()

From: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com

[ Upstream commit da20ab35180780e4a6eadc804544f1fa967f3567 ]

We do not have tracepoints for sys_modify_ldt() because we define it directly instead of using the normal SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros.

However, there is a reason sys_modify_ldt() does not use the macros: it has an 'int' return type instead of 'unsigned long'. This is a bug, but it's a bug cemented in the ABI.

What does this mean? If we return -EINVAL from a function that returns 'int', we have 0x00000000ffffffea in %rax. But, if we return -EINVAL from a function returning 'unsigned long', we end up with 0xffffffffffffffea in %rax, which is wrong.

To work around this and maintain the 'int' behavior while using the SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros, so we add a cast to 'unsigned int' in both implementations of sys_modify_ldt().

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Brian Gerst brgerst@gmail.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018172107.1A79C532@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c | 16 +++++++++++++--- arch/x86/um/ldt.c | 7 +++++-- 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ioperm(unsigned long asmlinkage long sys_iopl(unsigned int);

/* kernel/ldt.c */ -asmlinkage int sys_modify_ldt(int, void __user *, unsigned long); +asmlinkage long sys_modify_ldt(int, void __user *, unsigned long);

/* kernel/signal.c */ asmlinkage long sys_rt_sigreturn(void); --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ #include <linux/string.h> #include <linux/mm.h> #include <linux/smp.h> +#include <linux/syscalls.h> #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/vmalloc.h> #include <linux/uaccess.h> @@ -271,8 +272,8 @@ out: return error; }

-asmlinkage int sys_modify_ldt(int func, void __user *ptr, - unsigned long bytecount) +SYSCALL_DEFINE3(modify_ldt, int , func , void __user * , ptr , + unsigned long , bytecount) { int ret = -ENOSYS;

@@ -290,5 +291,14 @@ asmlinkage int sys_modify_ldt(int func, ret = write_ldt(ptr, bytecount, 0); break; } - return ret; + /* + * The SYSCALL_DEFINE() macros give us an 'unsigned long' + * return type, but tht ABI for sys_modify_ldt() expects + * 'int'. This cast gives us an int-sized value in %rax + * for the return code. The 'unsigned' is necessary so + * the compiler does not try to sign-extend the negative + * return codes into the high half of the register when + * taking the value from int->long. + */ + return (unsigned int)ret; } --- a/arch/x86/um/ldt.c +++ b/arch/x86/um/ldt.c @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ #include <linux/mm.h> #include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/slab.h> +#include <linux/syscalls.h> #include <linux/uaccess.h> #include <asm/unistd.h> #include <os.h> @@ -369,7 +370,9 @@ void free_ldt(struct mm_context *mm) mm->arch.ldt.entry_count = 0; }

-int sys_modify_ldt(int func, void __user *ptr, unsigned long bytecount) +SYSCALL_DEFINE3(modify_ldt, int , func , void __user * , ptr , + unsigned long , bytecount) { - return do_modify_ldt_skas(func, ptr, bytecount); + /* See non-um modify_ldt() for why we do this cast */ + return (unsigned int)do_modify_ldt_skas(func, ptr, bytecount); }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dave.hansen@linux.intel.com are

queue-4.9/x86-entry-use-syscall_define-macros-for-sys_modify_ldt.patch queue-4.9/x86-fpu-set-the-xcomp_bv-when-we-fake-up-a-xsaves-area.patch