ARM: 7410/1: Add extra clobber registers for assembly in kernel_execve
authorTim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Wed, 2 May 2012 21:55:39 +0000 (22:55 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 21 May 2012 16:39:58 +0000 (09:39 -0700)
commit e787ec1376e862fcea1bfd523feb7c5fb43ecdb9 upstream.

The inline assembly in kernel_execve() uses r8 and r9.  Since this
code sequence does not return, it usually doesn't matter if the
register clobber list is accurate.  However, I saw a case where a
particular version of gcc used r8 as an intermediate for the value
eventually passed to r9.  Because r8 is used in the inline
assembly, and not mentioned in the clobber list, r9 was set
to an incorrect value.

This resulted in a kernel panic on execution of the first user-space
program in the system.  r9 is used in ret_to_user as the thread_info
pointer, and if it's wrong, bad things happen.

Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c

index 62e7c61d0342754193cf4833b16b57723b081f73..0264ab433e9e8d633f6e5605890d534d71b8396b 100644 (file)
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ int kernel_execve(const char *filename,
                  "Ir" (THREAD_START_SP - sizeof(regs)),
                  "r" (&regs),
                  "Ir" (sizeof(regs))
-               : "r0", "r1", "r2", "r3", "ip", "lr", "memory");
+               : "r0", "r1", "r2", "r3", "r8", "r9", "ip", "lr", "memory");
 
  out:
        return ret;