From: Andreas Schwab Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 00:49:00 +0000 (+0000) Subject: powerpc: Fix msr check in compat_sys_swapcontext X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=77eb50aefa5dd2337246dce8b66e18e837c1a8bc;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2FG12%2Fandroid_kernel_amlogic_linux-4.9.git powerpc: Fix msr check in compat_sys_swapcontext 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 Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras --- diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c index a6a43103655e..b13abf305996 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c @@ -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)