Thread (274 messages) 274 messages, 5 authors, 2016-07-30

[added to the 4.1 stable tree] sparc64: Fix sparc64_set_context stack handling.

From: Sasha Levin <hidden>
Date: 2016-07-12 03:00:19
Subsystem: sparc + ultrasparc (sparc/sparc64), the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Andreas Larsson, Linus Torvalds

From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch has been added to the 4.1 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.

===============

[ Upstream commit 397d1533b6cce0ccb5379542e2e6d079f6936c46 ]

Like a signal return, we should use synchronize_user_stack() rather
than flush_user_windows().

Reported-by: Ilya Malakhov <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <redacted>
---
 arch/sparc/kernel/signal_64.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/signal_64.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/signal_64.c
index d88beff4..39aaec1 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/signal_64.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/signal_64.c
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ asmlinkage void sparc64_set_context(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	unsigned char fenab;
 	int err;
 
-	flush_user_windows();
+	synchronize_user_stack();
 	if (get_thread_wsaved()					||
 	    (((unsigned long)ucp) & (sizeof(unsigned long)-1))	||
 	    (!__access_ok(ucp, sizeof(*ucp))))
-- 
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