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[PATCH v2 2/6] MIPS: Guard against any partial write attempt with PTRACE

To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>, James Hogan <james.hogan@mips.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/6] MIPS: Guard against any partial write attempt with PTRACE_SETREGSET
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@mips.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 22:52:15 +0000
Cc: Paul Burton <Paul.Burton@mips.com>, Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>, <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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Complement commit d614fd58a283 ("mips/ptrace: Preserve previous 
registers for short regset write") and ensure that no partial register 
write attempt is made with PTRACE_SETREGSET, as we do not preinitialize 
any temporaries used to hold incoming register data and consequently 
random data could be written.

It is the responsibility of the caller, such as `ptrace_regset', to 
arrange for writes to span whole registers only, so here we only assert 
that it has indeed happened.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.15+
Fixes: 72b22bbad1e7 ("MIPS: Don't assume 64-bit FP registers for FP regset")
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@mips.com>
---

New in v2.

---
 arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c |   12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

linux-mips-nt-prfpreg-size-bug.diff
Index: linux-sfr-test/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c
===================================================================
--- linux-sfr-test.orig/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c       2017-12-08 
16:21:09.783307000 +0000
+++ linux-sfr-test/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c    2017-12-08 16:21:19.498382000 
+0000
@@ -507,7 +507,15 @@ static int fpr_set_msa(struct task_struc
        return 0;
 }
 
-/* Copy the supplied NT_PRFPREG buffer to the floating-point context.  */
+/*
+ * Copy the supplied NT_PRFPREG buffer to the floating-point context.
+ *
+ * We optimize for the case where `count % sizeof(elf_fpreg_t) == 0',
+ * which is supposed to have been guaranteed by the kernel before
+ * calling us, e.g. in `ptrace_regset'.  We enforce that requirement,
+ * so that we can safely avoid preinitializing temporaries for
+ * partial register writes.
+ */
 static int fpr_set(struct task_struct *target,
                   const struct user_regset *regset,
                   unsigned int pos, unsigned int count,
@@ -515,6 +523,8 @@ static int fpr_set(struct task_struct *t
 {
        int err;
 
+       BUG_ON(count % sizeof(elf_fpreg_t));
+
        /* XXX fcr31  */
 
        init_fp_ctx(target);

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