ARM: 7411/1: audit: fix treatment of saved ip register during syscall tracing
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Fri, 4 May 2012 16:52:02 +0000 (17:52 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Sat, 5 May 2012 12:54:01 +0000 (13:54 +0100)
The ARM audit code incorrectly uses the saved application ip register
value to infer syscall entry or exit. Additionally, the saved value will
be clobbered if the current task is not being traced, which can lead to
libc corruption if ip is live (apparently glibc uses it for the TLS
pointer).

This patch fixes the syscall tracing code so that the why parameter is
used to infer the syscall direction and the saved ip is only updated if
we know that we will be signalling a ptrace trap.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c

index 80abafb9bf3374d5f6d86b67ee0f1b1260b7e9fc..d8dbe9ca66b08c045a2d903a4d302d564ca60dde 100644 (file)
@@ -916,14 +916,7 @@ asmlinkage int syscall_trace(int why, struct pt_regs *regs, int scno)
 {
        unsigned long ip;
 
-       /*
-        * Save IP.  IP is used to denote syscall entry/exit:
-        *  IP = 0 -> entry, = 1 -> exit
-        */
-       ip = regs->ARM_ip;
-       regs->ARM_ip = why;
-
-       if (!ip)
+       if (why)
                audit_syscall_exit(regs);
        else
                audit_syscall_entry(AUDIT_ARCH_NR, scno, regs->ARM_r0,
@@ -936,6 +929,13 @@ asmlinkage int syscall_trace(int why, struct pt_regs *regs, int scno)
 
        current_thread_info()->syscall = scno;
 
+       /*
+        * IP is used to denote syscall entry/exit:
+        * IP = 0 -> entry, =1 -> exit
+        */
+       ip = regs->ARM_ip;
+       regs->ARM_ip = why;
+
        /* the 0x80 provides a way for the tracing parent to distinguish
           between a syscall stop and SIGTRAP delivery */
        ptrace_notify(SIGTRAP | ((current->ptrace & PT_TRACESYSGOOD)