Guillem Jover <guil...@hadrons.org> writes: > This type is used to pass the sigset_t from userland to the kernel, > but it was using the kernel native pointer type for the member > representing the compat userland pointer to the userland sigset_t. > > This messes up the layout, and makes the kernel eat up both the > userland pointer and the size members into the kernel pointer, and > then reads garbage into the kernel sigsetsize. Which makes the sigset_t > size consistency check fail, and consequently the syscall always > returns -EINVAL. > > This breaks both libaio and strace on 32-bit userland running on 64-bit > kernels. And there are apparently no users in the wild of the current > broken layout (at least according to codesearch.debian.org and a brief > check over github.com search). So it looks safe to fix this directly > in the kernel, instead of either letting userland deal with this > permanently with the additional overhead or trying to make the syscall > infer what layout userland used, even though this is also being worked > around in libaio to temporarily cope with kernels that have not yet > been fixed. > > We use a proper compat_uptr_t instead of a compat_sigset_t pointer. > > Fixes: 7a074e96 ("aio: implement io_pgetevents") > Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <guil...@hadrons.org>
Looks good, thanks for finding and fixing this! Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmo...@redhat.com> > --- > fs/aio.c | 6 +++--- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c > index 01e0fb9ae45a..056f291bc66f 100644 > --- a/fs/aio.c > +++ b/fs/aio.c > @@ -2179,7 +2179,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(io_getevents_time32, __u32, ctx_id, > #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT > > struct __compat_aio_sigset { > - compat_sigset_t __user *sigmask; > + compat_uptr_t sigmask; > compat_size_t sigsetsize; > }; > > @@ -2204,7 +2204,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE6(io_pgetevents, > if (usig && copy_from_user(&ksig, usig, sizeof(ksig))) > return -EFAULT; > > - ret = set_compat_user_sigmask(ksig.sigmask, ksig.sigsetsize); > + ret = set_compat_user_sigmask(compat_ptr(ksig.sigmask), > ksig.sigsetsize); > if (ret) > return ret; > > @@ -2239,7 +2239,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE6(io_pgetevents_time64, > if (usig && copy_from_user(&ksig, usig, sizeof(ksig))) > return -EFAULT; > > - ret = set_compat_user_sigmask(ksig.sigmask, ksig.sigsetsize); > + ret = set_compat_user_sigmask(compat_ptr(ksig.sigmask), > ksig.sigsetsize); > if (ret) > return ret;