From 552b8aa4d1edcc1c764ff6f61a7686347a2d1827 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:31:49 +0100 Subject: Revert "x86: signal: change type of paramter for sys_rt_sigreturn()" This reverts commit 4217458dafaa57d8e26a46f5d05ab8c53cf64191. Justin Madru bisected this commit, it was causing weird Firefox crashes. The reason is that GCC mis-optimizes (re-uses) the on-stack parameters of the calling frame, which corrupts the syscall return pt_regs state and thus corrupts user-space register state. So we go back to the slightly less clean but more optimization-safe method of getting to pt_regs. Also add a comment to explain this. Resolves: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12505 Reported-and-bisected-by: Justin Madru Tested-by: Justin Madru Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/signal.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c index 89bb7668041..df0587f24c5 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c @@ -632,9 +632,16 @@ badframe: } #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 -asmlinkage int sys_rt_sigreturn(struct pt_regs regs) +/* + * Note: do not pass in pt_regs directly as with tail-call optimization + * GCC will incorrectly stomp on the caller's frame and corrupt user-space + * register state: + */ +asmlinkage int sys_rt_sigreturn(unsigned long __unused) { - return do_rt_sigreturn(®s); + struct pt_regs *regs = (struct pt_regs *)&__unused; + + return do_rt_sigreturn(regs); } #else /* !CONFIG_X86_32 */ asmlinkage long sys_rt_sigreturn(struct pt_regs *regs) -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2