Commit-ID:  18ecb3bfa5a9f6fffbb3eeb4369f0b9463438ec0
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/18ecb3bfa5a9f6fffbb3eeb4369f0b9463438ec0
Author:     Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
AuthorDate: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 20:41:37 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:15:47 +0200

x86/fpu: Load xsave pointer *after* initialization

So I was playing with gdb today and did this simple thing:

        gdb /bin/ls

        ...

        (gdb) run

Box exploded with this splat:

        BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 
00000000000001d0
        IP: [<ffffffff8100fe5a>] xstateregs_get+0x7a/0x120
        [...]

        Call Trace:
         ptrace_regset
         ptrace_request
         ? wait_task_inactive
         ? preempt_count_sub
         arch_ptrace
         ? ptrace_get_task_struct
         SyS_ptrace
         system_call_fastpath

... because we do cache &target->thread.fpu.state->xsave into the
local variable xsave but that pointer is NULL at that time and
it gets initialized later, in init_fpu(), see:

        e7f180dcd8ab ("x86/fpu: Change xstateregs_get()/set() to use 
->xsave.i387 rather than ->fxsave")

The fix is simple: load xsave *after* init_fpu() has run.

Also do the same in xstateregs_set(), as suggested by Oleg Nesterov.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
Cc: Tavis Ormandy <tav...@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429209697-5902-1-git-send-email...@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/i387.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c b/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
index 367f39d..00918327 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ int xstateregs_get(struct task_struct *target, const struct 
user_regset *regset,
                unsigned int pos, unsigned int count,
                void *kbuf, void __user *ubuf)
 {
-       struct xsave_struct *xsave = &target->thread.fpu.state->xsave;
+       struct xsave_struct *xsave;
        int ret;
 
        if (!cpu_has_xsave)
@@ -351,6 +351,8 @@ int xstateregs_get(struct task_struct *target, const struct 
user_regset *regset,
        if (ret)
                return ret;
 
+       xsave = &target->thread.fpu.state->xsave;
+
        /*
         * Copy the 48bytes defined by the software first into the xstate
         * memory layout in the thread struct, so that we can copy the entire
@@ -369,7 +371,7 @@ int xstateregs_set(struct task_struct *target, const struct 
user_regset *regset,
                  unsigned int pos, unsigned int count,
                  const void *kbuf, const void __user *ubuf)
 {
-       struct xsave_struct *xsave = &target->thread.fpu.state->xsave;
+       struct xsave_struct *xsave;
        int ret;
 
        if (!cpu_has_xsave)
@@ -379,6 +381,8 @@ int xstateregs_set(struct task_struct *target, const struct 
user_regset *regset,
        if (ret)
                return ret;
 
+       xsave = &target->thread.fpu.state->xsave;
+
        ret = user_regset_copyin(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, xsave, 0, -1);
        /*
         * mxcsr reserved bits must be masked to zero for security reasons.
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