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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>2006-04-18 20:59:26 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2006-04-24 09:56:04 -0700
commit248c64d252a614b7d07ed85e1d714b25dd537d57 (patch)
tree4778502dff46b3188f1d96c565863fea2893442b
parentfa39df2ff7f6102f1f37d3cf1f68243534d56253 (diff)
[PATCH] x86: don't allow tail-calls in sys_ftruncate[64]()
x86: don't allow tail-calls in sys_ftruncate[64]() Gcc thinks it owns the incoming argument stack, but that's not true for "asmlinkage" functions, and it corrupts the caller-set-up argument stack when it pushes the third argument onto the stack. Which can result in %ebx getting corrupted in user space. Now, normally nobody sane would ever notice, since libc will save and restore %ebx anyway over the system call, but it's still wrong. I'd much rather have "asmlinkage" tell gcc directly that it doesn't own the stack, but no such attribute exists, so we're stuck with our hacky manual "prevent_tail_call()" macro once more (we've had the same issue before with sys_waitpid() and sys_wait4()). Thanks to Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@sub.uni-goettingen.de> for reporting the issue and testing the fix. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--fs/open.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 70e0230d8e7..b73623cdb57 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -330,7 +330,9 @@ out:
asmlinkage long sys_ftruncate(unsigned int fd, unsigned long length)
{
- return do_sys_ftruncate(fd, length, 1);
+ long ret = do_sys_ftruncate(fd, length, 1);
+ prevent_tail_call(ret);
+ return ret;
}
/* LFS versions of truncate are only needed on 32 bit machines */
@@ -342,7 +344,9 @@ asmlinkage long sys_truncate64(const char __user * path, loff_t length)
asmlinkage long sys_ftruncate64(unsigned int fd, loff_t length)
{
- return do_sys_ftruncate(fd, length, 0);
+ long ret = do_sys_ftruncate(fd, length, 0);
+ prevent_tail_call(ret);
+ return ret;
}
#endif