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

    MIPS: do_mcheck: Fix kernel code dump with EVA

to the 4.1-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:
     mips-do_mcheck-fix-kernel-code-dump-with-eva.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

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


>From 55c723e181ccec30fb5c672397fe69ec35967d97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Hogan <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 13:50:21 +0100
Subject: MIPS: do_mcheck: Fix kernel code dump with EVA

From: James Hogan <[email protected]>

commit 55c723e181ccec30fb5c672397fe69ec35967d97 upstream.

If a machine check exception is raised in kernel mode, user context,
with EVA enabled, then the do_mcheck handler will attempt to read the
code around the EPC using EVA load instructions, i.e. as if the reads
were from user mode. This will either read random user data if the
process has anything mapped at the same address, or it will cause an
exception which is handled by __get_user, resulting in this output:

 Code: (Bad address in epc)

Fix by setting the current user access mode to kernel if the saved
register context indicates the exception was taken in kernel mode. This
causes __get_user to use normal loads to read the kernel code.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <[email protected]>
Cc: Markos Chandras <[email protected]>
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10777/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 arch/mips/kernel/traps.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
@@ -1518,6 +1518,7 @@ asmlinkage void do_mcheck(struct pt_regs
        const int field = 2 * sizeof(unsigned long);
        int multi_match = regs->cp0_status & ST0_TS;
        enum ctx_state prev_state;
+       mm_segment_t old_fs = get_fs();
 
        prev_state = exception_enter();
        show_regs(regs);
@@ -1539,8 +1540,13 @@ asmlinkage void do_mcheck(struct pt_regs
                dump_tlb_all();
        }
 
+       if (!user_mode(regs))
+               set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
+
        show_code((unsigned int __user *) regs->cp0_epc);
 
+       set_fs(old_fs);
+
        /*
         * Some chips may have other causes of machine check (e.g. SB1
         * graduation timer)


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

queue-4.1/mips-show_stack-fix-stack-trace-with-eva.patch
queue-4.1/mips-flush-rps-on-kernel-entry-with-eva.patch
queue-4.1/mips-do_mcheck-fix-kernel-code-dump-with-eva.patch
queue-4.1/mips-malta-don-t-reinitialise-rtc.patch
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