ARM: 8051/1: put_user: fix possible data corruption in put_user
authorAndrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Wed, 7 May 2014 07:07:25 +0000 (08:07 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Sun, 25 May 2014 22:44:25 +0000 (23:44 +0100)
According to arm procedure call standart r2 register is call-cloberred.
So after the result of x expression was put into r2 any following
function call in p may overwrite r2. To fix this, the result of p
expression must be saved to the temporary variable before the
assigment x expression to __r2.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h

index 12c3a5d..75d9579 100644 (file)
@@ -171,8 +171,9 @@ extern int __put_user_8(void *, unsigned long long);
 #define __put_user_check(x,p)                                                  \
        ({                                                              \
                unsigned long __limit = current_thread_info()->addr_limit - 1; \
+               const typeof(*(p)) __user *__tmp_p = (p);               \
                register const typeof(*(p)) __r2 asm("r2") = (x);       \
-               register const typeof(*(p)) __user *__p asm("r0") = (p);\
+               register const typeof(*(p)) __user *__p asm("r0") = __tmp_p; \
                register unsigned long __l asm("r1") = __limit;         \
                register int __e asm("r0");                             \
                switch (sizeof(*(__p))) {                               \