powerpc: Fix msr check in compat_sys_swapcontext
authorAndreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Thu, 6 Nov 2008 00:49:00 +0000 (00:49 +0000)
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:42:22 +0000 (19:42 +1100)
The new context may not be 16-byte aligned, so the real address of the
mcontext structure should be read from the uc_regs pointer instead of
directly using the (unaligned) uc_mcontext field.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c

index a6a43103655e8625865b021b5cf3d59e2cee0221..b13abf305996353735f0b1ec841fd8998da2e793 100644 (file)
@@ -941,9 +941,21 @@ long sys_swapcontext(struct ucontext __user *old_ctx,
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
        unsigned long new_msr = 0;
 
-       if (new_ctx &&
-           get_user(new_msr, &new_ctx->uc_mcontext.mc_gregs[PT_MSR]))
-               return -EFAULT;
+       if (new_ctx) {
+               struct mcontext __user *mcp;
+               u32 cmcp;
+
+               /*
+                * Get pointer to the real mcontext.  No need for
+                * access_ok since we are dealing with compat
+                * pointers.
+                */
+               if (__get_user(cmcp, &new_ctx->uc_regs))
+                       return -EFAULT;
+               mcp = (struct mcontext __user *)(u64)cmcp;
+               if (__get_user(new_msr, &mcp->mc_gregs[PT_MSR]))
+                       return -EFAULT;
+       }
        /*
         * Check that the context is not smaller than the original
         * size (with VMX but without VSX)