3.13.11-ckt12 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let 
me know.

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From: Kyle McMartin <[email protected]>

commit 97fc15436b36ee3956efad83e22a557991f7d19d upstream.

ARM64 currently doesn't fix up faults on the single-byte (strb) case of
__clear_user... which means that we can cause a nasty kernel panic as an
ordinary user with any multiple PAGE_SIZE+1 read from /dev/zero.
i.e.: dd if=/dev/zero of=foo ibs=1 count=1 (or ibs=65537, etc.)

This is a pretty obscure bug in the general case since we'll only
__do_kernel_fault (since there's no extable entry for pc) if the
mmap_sem is contended. However, with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM enabled, we'll
always fault.

if (!down_read_trylock(&mm->mmap_sem)) {
        if (!user_mode(regs) && !search_exception_tables(regs->pc))
                goto no_context;
retry:
        down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
} else {
        /*
         * The above down_read_trylock() might have succeeded in
         * which
         * case, we'll have missed the might_sleep() from
         * down_read().
         */
        might_sleep();
        if (!user_mode(regs) && !search_exception_tables(regs->pc))
                goto no_context;
}

Fix that by adding an extable entry for the strb instruction, since it
touches user memory, similar to the other stores in __clear_user.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Miloš Prchlík <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Reference: CVE-2014-7843
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <[email protected]>
---
 arch/arm64/lib/clear_user.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/clear_user.S b/arch/arm64/lib/clear_user.S
index 6e0ed93..c17967f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/lib/clear_user.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/lib/clear_user.S
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ USER(9f, strh wzr, [x0], #2   )
        sub     x1, x1, #2
 4:     adds    x1, x1, #1
        b.mi    5f
-       strb    wzr, [x0]
+USER(9f, strb  wzr, [x0]       )
 5:     mov     x0, #0
        ret
 ENDPROC(__clear_user)
-- 
1.9.1

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