Patch "powerpc/mm: Fix SEGV on mapped region to return SEGV_ACCERR" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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

powerpc/mm: Fix SEGV on mapped region to return SEGV_ACCERR

to the 4.14-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:
powerpc-mm-fix-segv-on-mapped-region-to-return-segv_accerr.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

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

From: John Sperbeck <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 21:24:58 -0800
Subject: powerpc/mm: Fix SEGV on mapped region to return SEGV_ACCERR

From: John Sperbeck <[email protected]>

commit ecb101aed86156ec7cd71e5dca668e09146e6994 upstream.

The recent refactoring of the powerpc page fault handler in commit c3350602e876 ("powerpc/mm: Make bad_area* helper functions") caused access to protected memory regions to indicate SEGV_MAPERR instead of the traditional SEGV_ACCERR in the si_code field of a user-space signal handler. This can confuse debug libraries that temporarily change the protection of memory regions, and expect to use SEGV_ACCERR as an indication to restore access to a region.

This commit restores the previous behavior. The following program exhibits the issue:

    $ ./repro read  || echo "FAILED"
    $ ./repro write || echo "FAILED"
    $ ./repro exec  || echo "FAILED"

    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <string.h>
    #include <unistd.h>
    #include <signal.h>
    #include <sys/mman.h>
    #include <assert.h>

    static void segv_handler(int n, siginfo_t *info, void *arg) {
            _exit(info->si_code == SEGV_ACCERR ? 0 : 1);
    }

    int main(int argc, char **argv)
    {
            void *p = NULL;
            struct sigaction act = {
                    .sa_sigaction = segv_handler,
                    .sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO,
            };

            assert(argc == 2);
            p = mmap(NULL, getpagesize(),
                    (strcmp(argv[1], "write") == 0) ? PROT_READ : 0,
                    MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
            assert(p != MAP_FAILED);

            assert(sigaction(SIGSEGV, &act, NULL) == 0);
            if (strcmp(argv[1], "read") == 0)
                    printf("%c", *(unsigned char *)p);
            else if (strcmp(argv[1], "write") == 0)
                    *(unsigned char *)p = 0;
            else if (strcmp(argv[1], "exec") == 0)
                    ((void (*)(void))p)();
            return 1;  /* failed to generate SEGV */
    }

---
 arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -145,6 +145,11 @@ static noinline int bad_area(struct pt_r
 	return __bad_area(regs, address, SEGV_MAPERR);
 }
 
+static noinline int bad_access(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address)
+{
+	return __bad_area(regs, address, SEGV_ACCERR);
+}
+
 static int do_sigbus(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
 		     unsigned int fault)
 {

@@ -490,7 +495,7 @@ retry:
 
 good_area:
 	if (unlikely(access_error(is_write, is_exec, vma)))
-		return bad_area(regs, address);
+		return bad_access(regs, address);
 
 	/*
 	 * If for any reason at all we couldn't handle the fault,

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

queue-4.14/powerpc-mm-fix-segv-on-mapped-region-to-return-segv_accerr.patch