ARM: Fix signal restart issues with NX and OABI compat

The signal restarting code was placed on the user stack when OABI
compatibility is enabled.  Unfortunately, with an EABI NX executable,
this results in an attempt to run code from the non-executable stack,
which segfaults the application.

Fix this by placing the code in the vectors page, along side the
signal return code, and directing the application to that code.

Reported-by: saeed bishara <saeed.bishara@gmail.com>
Tested-by: saeed bishara <saeed.bishara@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

3 files changed, 23 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
index 1423a3419789..2a573d4fea24 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  *  linux/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
  *
- *  Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Russell King
+ *  Copyright (C) 1995-2009 Russell King
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
  */
 #define SWI_SYS_SIGRETURN       (0xef000000|(__NR_sigreturn)|(__NR_OABI_SYSCALL_BASE))
 #define SWI_SYS_RT_SIGRETURN    (0xef000000|(__NR_rt_sigreturn)|(__NR_OABI_SYSCALL_BASE))
+#define SWI_SYS_RESTART         (0xef000000|__NR_restart_syscall|__NR_OABI_SYSCALL_BASE)
 
 /*
  * With EABI, the syscall number has to be loaded into r7.
@@ -49,6 +50,18 @@ const unsigned long sigreturn_codes[7] = {
 };
 
 /*
+ * Either we support OABI only, or we have EABI with the OABI
+ * compat layer enabled.  In the later case we don't know if
+ * user space is EABI or not, and if not we must not clobber r7.
+ * Always using the OABI syscall solves that issue and works for
+ * all those cases.
+ */
+const unsigned long syscall_restart_code[2] = {
+        SWI_SYS_RESTART,        /* swi  __NR_restart_syscall */
+        0xe49df004,             /* ldr  pc, [sp], #4 */
+};
+
+/*
  * atomically swap in the new signal mask, and wait for a signal.
  */
 asmlinkage int sys_sigsuspend(int restart, unsigned long oldmask, old_sigset_t mask)
@@ -645,32 +658,12 @@ static void do_signal(struct pt_regs *regs, int syscall)
                                 regs->ARM_pc -= 4;
 #else
                                 u32 __user *usp;
-                                u32 swival = __NR_restart_syscall;
 
-                                regs->ARM_sp -= 12;
+                                regs->ARM_sp -= 4;
                                 usp = (u32 __user *)regs->ARM_sp;
 
-                                /*
-                                 * Either we supports OABI only, or we have
-                                 * EABI with the OABI compat layer enabled.
-                                 * In the later case we don't know if user
-                                 * space is EABI or not, and if not we must
-                                 * not clobber r7.  Always using the OABI
-                                 * syscall solves that issue and works for
-                                 * all those cases.
-                                 */
-                                swival = swival - __NR_SYSCALL_BASE + __NR_OABI_SYSCALL_BASE;
-
-                                put_user(regs->ARM_pc, &usp[0]);
-                                /* swi __NR_restart_syscall */
-                                put_user(0xef000000 | swival, &usp[1]);
-                                /* ldr  pc, [sp], #12 */
-                                put_user(0xe49df00c, &usp[2]);
-
-                                flush_icache_range((unsigned long)usp,
-                                                   (unsigned long)(usp + 3));
-
-                                regs->ARM_pc = regs->ARM_sp + 4;
+                                put_user(regs->ARM_pc, usp);
+                                regs->ARM_pc = KERN_RESTART_CODE;
 #endif
                         }
                 }
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.h b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.h
index 27beece15502..6fcfe8398aa4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.h
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.h
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 /*
  *  linux/arch/arm/kernel/signal.h
  *
- *  Copyright (C) 2005 Russell King.
+ *  Copyright (C) 2005-2009 Russell King.
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
  * published by the Free Software Foundation.
  */
 #define KERN_SIGRETURN_CODE     (CONFIG_VECTORS_BASE + 0x00000500)
+#define KERN_RESTART_CODE       (KERN_SIGRETURN_CODE + sizeof(sigreturn_codes))
 
 extern const unsigned long sigreturn_codes[7];
+extern const unsigned long syscall_restart_code[2];
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
index f838f36eb702..95718a6b50a6 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  *  linux/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
  *
- *  Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Russell King
+ *  Copyright (C) 1995-2009 Russell King
  *  Fragments that appear the same as linux/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c (C) Linus Torvalds
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -751,6 +751,8 @@ void __init early_trap_init(void)
          */
         memcpy((void *)KERN_SIGRETURN_CODE, sigreturn_codes,
                sizeof(sigreturn_codes));
+        memcpy((void *)KERN_RESTART_CODE, syscall_restart_code,
+               sizeof(syscall_restart_code));
 
         flush_icache_range(vectors, vectors + PAGE_SIZE);
         modify_domain(DOMAIN_USER, DOMAIN_CLIENT);