x86/vdso: Fix vdso2c's special_pages[] error checking
authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:59:49 +0000 (14:59 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:55:38 +0000 (09:55 +0200)
Stephen Rothwell's compiler did something amazing: it unrolled a
loop, discovered that one iteration of that loop contained an
always-true test, and emitted a warning that will IMO only serve
to convince people to disable the warning.

That bogus warning caused me to wonder what prompted such an
absurdity from his compiler, and I discovered that the code in
question was, in fact, completely wrong -- I was looking things
up in the wrong array.

This affects 3.16 as well, but the only effect is to screw up
the error checking a bit.  vdso2c's output is unaffected.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/53d96ad5.80ywqrbs33ZBCQej%25akpm@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h

index fd57829b30d8874cb084496482b8f8b379129c14..0224987556ce80bd606063b56ef124b0857a3f44 100644 (file)
@@ -109,16 +109,18 @@ static void BITSFUNC(go)(void *raw_addr, size_t raw_len,
 
        /* Validate mapping addresses. */
        for (i = 0; i < sizeof(special_pages) / sizeof(special_pages[0]); i++) {
-               if (!syms[i])
+               INT_BITS symval = syms[special_pages[i]];
+
+               if (!symval)
                        continue;  /* The mapping isn't used; ignore it. */
 
-               if (syms[i] % 4096)
+               if (symval % 4096)
                        fail("%s must be a multiple of 4096\n",
                             required_syms[i].name);
-               if (syms[sym_vvar_start] > syms[i] + 4096)
-                       fail("%s underruns begin_vvar\n",
+               if (symval + 4096 < syms[sym_vvar_start])
+                       fail("%s underruns vvar_start\n",
                             required_syms[i].name);
-               if (syms[i] + 4096 > 0)
+               if (symval + 4096 > 0)
                        fail("%s is on the wrong side of the vdso text\n",
                             required_syms[i].name);
        }