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Patch "ARM: net fix emit_udiv() for BPF_ALU | BPF_DIV | BPF_K intruction." has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ARM: net fix emit_udiv() for BPF_ALU | BPF_DIV | BPF_K intruction.

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
arm-net-fix-emit_udiv-for-bpf_alu-bpf_div-bpf_k-intruction.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 19fc99d0c6ba7d9b65456496b5bb2169d5f74cd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Nicolas Schichan <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 18:31:56 +0200
Subject: ARM: net fix emit_udiv() for BPF_ALU | BPF_DIV | BPF_K intruction.

From: Nicolas Schichan <[email protected]>

commit 19fc99d0c6ba7d9b65456496b5bb2169d5f74cd0 upstream.

In that case, emit_udiv() will be called with rn == ARM_R0 (r_scratch) and loading rm first into ARM_R0 will result in jit_udiv() function being called the same dividend and divisor. Fix that by loading rn first into ARM_R1 and then rm into ARM_R0.

Fixes aee636c4809f (bpf: do not use reciprocal divide)
---
 arch/arm/net/bpf_jit_32.c |   15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
arch/arm/net/bpf_jit_32.c +13 -2
@@ -449,10 +449,21 @@ static inline void emit_udiv(u8 rd, u8 r
 		return;
 	}
 #endif
-	if (rm != ARM_R0)
-		emit(ARM_MOV_R(ARM_R0, rm), ctx);
+
+	/*
+	 * For BPF_ALU | BPF_DIV | BPF_K instructions, rm is ARM_R4
+	 * (r_A) and rn is ARM_R0 (r_scratch) so load rn first into
+	 * ARM_R1 to avoid accidentally overwriting ARM_R0 with rm
+	 * before using it as a source for ARM_R1.
+	 *
+	 * For BPF_ALU | BPF_DIV | BPF_X rm is ARM_R4 (r_A) and rn is
+	 * ARM_R5 (r_X) so there is no particular register overlap
+	 * issues.
+	 */
 	if (rn != ARM_R1)
 		emit(ARM_MOV_R(ARM_R1, rn), ctx);
+	if (rm != ARM_R0)
+		emit(ARM_MOV_R(ARM_R0, rm), ctx);
 
 	ctx->seen |= SEEN_CALL;
 	emit_mov_i(ARM_R3, (u32)jit_udiv, ctx);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.14/arm-net-fix-emit_udiv-for-bpf_alu-bpf_div-bpf_k-intruction.patch