[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "x86/asm/traps: Disable tracing and kprobes in fixup_bad_iret and sync_regs" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    x86/asm/traps: Disable tracing and kprobes in fixup_bad_iret and sync_regs

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt3.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 4a8bc58a446330277cda27751729ad99b5d11dc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 17:39:06 -0800
Subject: x86/asm/traps: Disable tracing and kprobes in fixup_bad_iret and
 sync_regs

commit 7ddc6a2199f1da405a2fb68c40db8899b1a8cd87 upstream.

These functions can be executed on the int3 stack, so kprobes
are dangerous. Tracing is probably a bad idea, too.

Fixes: b645af2d5905 ("x86_64, traps: Rework bad_iret")
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/50e33d26adca60816f3ba968875801652507d0c4.1416870125.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
index de801f22128a..07ab8e9733c5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(do_int3);
  * for scheduling or signal handling. The actual stack switch is done in
  * entry.S
  */
-asmlinkage __visible struct pt_regs *sync_regs(struct pt_regs *eregs)
+asmlinkage __visible notrace struct pt_regs *sync_regs(struct pt_regs *eregs)
 {
 	struct pt_regs *regs = eregs;
 	/* Did already sync */
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ struct bad_iret_stack {
 	struct pt_regs regs;
 };

-asmlinkage __visible
+asmlinkage __visible notrace
 struct bad_iret_stack *fixup_bad_iret(struct bad_iret_stack *s)
 {
 	/*
@@ -436,6 +436,7 @@ struct bad_iret_stack *fixup_bad_iret(struct bad_iret_stack *s)
 	BUG_ON(!user_mode_vm(&new_stack->regs));
 	return new_stack;
 }
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(fixup_bad_iret);
 #endif

 /*
--
2.1.3