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signals/sigaltstack: If SS_AUTODISARM, bypass on_sig_stack()

If a signal stack is set up with SS_AUTODISARM, then the kernel
inherently avoids incorrectly resetting the signal stack if signals
recurse: the signal stack will be reset on the first signal
delivery. This means that we don't need check the stack pointer
when delivering signals if SS_AUTODISARM is set.

This will make segmented x86 programs more robust: currently there's
a hole that could be triggered if ESP/RSP appears to point to the
signal stack but actually doesn't due to a nonzero SS base.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Cc: Amanieu d'Antras <amanieu@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c46bee4654ca9e68c498462fd11746e2bd0d98c8.1462296606.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

authored by

Andy Lutomirski and committed by
Ingo Molnar
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include/linux/sched.h
··· 2576 2576 */ 2577 2577 static inline int on_sig_stack(unsigned long sp) 2578 2578 { 2579 + /* 2580 + * If the signal stack is SS_AUTODISARM then, by construction, we 2581 + * can't be on the signal stack unless user code deliberately set 2582 + * SS_AUTODISARM when we were already on it. 2583 + * 2584 + * This improves reliability: if user state gets corrupted such that 2585 + * the stack pointer points very close to the end of the signal stack, 2586 + * then this check will enable the signal to be handled anyway. 2587 + */ 2588 + if (current->sas_ss_flags & SS_AUTODISARM) 2589 + return 0; 2590 + 2579 2591 #ifdef CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP 2580 2592 return sp >= current->sas_ss_sp && 2581 2593 sp - current->sas_ss_sp < current->sas_ss_size;