[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "x86_32, entry: Store badsys error code in %eax" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    x86_32, entry: Store badsys error code in %eax

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.6.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 5eb2fae23ab722b5e5de511ce21cf9e5a20592f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener at stealer.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:26:06 +0200
Subject: x86_32, entry: Store badsys error code in %eax

commit 8142b215501f8b291a108a202b3a053a265b03dd upstream.

Commit 554086d ("x86_32, entry: Do syscall exit work on badsys
(CVE-2014-4508)") introduced a regression in the x86_32 syscall entry
code, resulting in syscall() not returning proper errors for undefined
syscalls on CPUs supporting the sysenter feature.

The following code:

> int result = syscall(666);
> printf("result=%d errno=%d error=%s\n", result, errno, strerror(errno));

results in:

> result=666 errno=0 error=Success

Obviously, the syscall return value is the called syscall number, but it
should have been an ENOSYS error. When run under ptrace it behaves
correctly, which makes it hard to debug in the wild:

> result=-1 errno=38 error=Function not implemented

The %eax register is the return value register. For debugging via ptrace
the syscall entry code stores the complete register context on the
stack. The badsys handlers only store the ENOSYS error code in the
ptrace register set and do not set %eax like a regular syscall handler
would. The old resume_userspace call chain contains code that clobbers
%eax and it restores %eax from the ptrace registers afterwards. The same
goes for the ptrace-enabled call chain. When ptrace is not used, the
syscall return value is the passed-in syscall number from the untouched
%eax register.

Use %eax as the return value register in syscall_badsys and
sysenter_badsys, like a real syscall handler does, and have the caller
push the value onto the stack for ptrace access.

Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener at stealer.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LNX.2.11.1407221022380.31021@titan.int.lan.stealer.net
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
index 6491353..c87810b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
@@ -433,8 +433,8 @@ sysenter_do_call:
 	cmpl $(NR_syscalls), %eax
 	jae sysenter_badsys
 	call *sys_call_table(,%eax,4)
-	movl %eax,PT_EAX(%esp)
 sysenter_after_call:
+	movl %eax,PT_EAX(%esp)
 	LOCKDEP_SYS_EXIT
 	DISABLE_INTERRUPTS(CLBR_ANY)
 	TRACE_IRQS_OFF
@@ -514,6 +514,7 @@ ENTRY(system_call)
 	jae syscall_badsys
 syscall_call:
 	call *sys_call_table(,%eax,4)
+syscall_after_call:
 	movl %eax,PT_EAX(%esp)		# store the return value
 syscall_exit:
 	LOCKDEP_SYS_EXIT
@@ -683,12 +684,12 @@ syscall_fault:
 END(syscall_fault)

 syscall_badsys:
-	movl $-ENOSYS,PT_EAX(%esp)
-	jmp syscall_exit
+	movl $-ENOSYS,%eax
+	jmp syscall_after_call
 END(syscall_badsys)

 sysenter_badsys:
-	movl $-ENOSYS,PT_EAX(%esp)
+	movl $-ENOSYS,%eax
 	jmp sysenter_after_call
 END(syscall_badsys)
 	CFI_ENDPROC
--
1.9.1