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    xen/x86: don't corrupt %eip when returning from a signal handler · a349e23d
    David Vrabel authored
    In 32 bit guests, if a userspace process has %eax == -ERESTARTSYS
    (-512) or -ERESTARTNOINTR (-513) when it is interrupted by an event
    /and/ the process has a pending signal then %eip (and %eax) are
    corrupted when returning to the main process after handling the
    signal.  The application may then crash with SIGSEGV or a SIGILL or it
    may have subtly incorrect behaviour (depending on what instruction it
    returned to).
    
    The occurs because handle_signal() is incorrectly thinking that there
    is a system call that needs to restarted so it adjusts %eip and %eax
    to re-execute the system call instruction (even though user space had
    not done a system call).
    
    If %eax == -514 (-ERESTARTNOHAND (-514) or -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK
    (-516) then handle_signal() only corrupted %eax (by setting it to
    -EINTR).  This may cause the application to crash or have incorrect
    behaviour.
    
    handle_signal() assumes that regs->orig_ax >= 0 means a system call so
    any kernel entry point that is not for a system call must push a
    negative value for orig_ax.  For example, for physical interrupts on
    bare metal the inverse of the vector is pushed and page_fault() sets
    regs->orig_ax to -1, overwriting the hardware provided error code.
    
    xen_hypervisor_callback() was incorrectly pushing 0 for orig_ax
    instead of -1.
    
    Classic Xen kernels pushed %eax which works as %eax cannot be both
    non-negative and -RESTARTSYS (etc.), but using -1 is consistent with
    other non-system call entry points and avoids some of the tests in
    handle_signal().
    
    There were similar bugs in xen_failsafe_callback() of both 32 and
    64-bit guests. If the fault was corrected and the normal return path
    was used then 0 was incorrectly pushed as the value for orig_ax.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarJan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
    a349e23d
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