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authorAndrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>2014-05-07 08:07:25 +0100
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2014-07-11 13:33:36 +0100
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ARM: 8051/1: put_user: fix possible data corruption in put_user
commit 537094b64b229bf3ad146042f83e74cf6abe59df upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
index 292c3f8..18a2858 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -158,8 +158,9 @@ extern int __put_user_8(void *, unsigned long long);
#define put_user(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))) { \