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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2018-01-04 19:55:55 +0100
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>2018-01-30 19:12:38 -0800
commitfe9b842f72921fb18b93cf47a255f374289ef242 (patch)
tree9fe9b96a98c5471f3f943690ab30d13064f181d4 /arch/riscv
parent509009ccfa53d031be5f5551fa2b7f9a4cbd2d93 (diff)
downloadlinux-fe9b842f72921fb18b93cf47a255f374289ef242.tar.bz2
riscv: disable SUM in the exception handler
The SUM bit is enabled at the beginning of the copy_{to,from}_user and {get,put}_user routines, and cleared before they return. But these user copy helper can be interrupted by exceptions, in which case the SUM bit will remain set, which leads to elevated privileges for the code running in exception context, as that can now access userspace address space unconditionally. This frequently happens when the user copy routines access freshly allocated user memory that hasn't been faulted in, and a pagefault needs to be taken before the user copy routines can continue. Fix this by unconditionally clearing SUM when the exception handler is called - the restore code will automatically restore it based on the saved value. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/riscv')
-rw-r--r--arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
index 7404ec222406..87fc045be51f 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
@@ -78,10 +78,13 @@ _save_context:
REG_S x31, PT_T6(sp)
/*
- * Disable FPU to detect illegal usage of
- * floating point in kernel space
+ * Disable user-mode memory access as it should only be set in the
+ * actual user copy routines.
+ *
+ * Disable the FPU to detect illegal usage of floating point in kernel
+ * space.
*/
- li t0, SR_FS
+ li t0, SR_SUM | SR_FS
REG_L s0, TASK_TI_USER_SP(tp)
csrrc s1, sstatus, t0