[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 100/305] x86/mpx: Fix instruction decoder condition

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Fri Jan 15 23:58:34 UTC 2016


4.2.8-ckt2 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at linux.intel.com>

commit 8e8efe0379bd93e8219ca0fc6fa80b5dd85b09cb upstream.

MPX decodes instructions in order to tell which bounds register
was violated.  Part of this decoding involves looking at the "REX
prefix" which is a special instrucion prefix used to retrofit
support for new registers in to old instructions.

The X86_REX_*() macros are defined to return actual bit values:

	#define X86_REX_R(rex) ((rex) & 4)

*not* boolean values.  However, the MPX code was checking for
them like they were booleans.  This might have led to us
mis-decoding the "REX prefix" and giving false information out to
userspace about bounds violations.  X86_REX_B() actually is bit 1,
so this is really only broken for the X86_REX_X() case.

Fix the conditionals up to tolerate the non-boolean values.

Fixes: fcc7ffd67991 "x86, mpx: Decode MPX instruction to get bound violation information"
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at linux.intel.com>
Cc: x86 at kernel.org
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151201003113.D800C1E0@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/mm/mpx.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/mpx.c b/arch/x86/mm/mpx.c
index c28f618..27f8393 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/mpx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/mpx.c
@@ -138,19 +138,19 @@ static int get_reg_offset(struct insn *insn, struct pt_regs *regs,
 	switch (type) {
 	case REG_TYPE_RM:
 		regno = X86_MODRM_RM(insn->modrm.value);
-		if (X86_REX_B(insn->rex_prefix.value) == 1)
+		if (X86_REX_B(insn->rex_prefix.value))
 			regno += 8;
 		break;
 
 	case REG_TYPE_INDEX:
 		regno = X86_SIB_INDEX(insn->sib.value);
-		if (X86_REX_X(insn->rex_prefix.value) == 1)
+		if (X86_REX_X(insn->rex_prefix.value))
 			regno += 8;
 		break;
 
 	case REG_TYPE_BASE:
 		regno = X86_SIB_BASE(insn->sib.value);
-		if (X86_REX_B(insn->rex_prefix.value) == 1)
+		if (X86_REX_B(insn->rex_prefix.value))
 			regno += 8;
 		break;
 
-- 
1.9.1





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