The alignment fixup incorrectly decodes faulting ARM VLDn/VSTn
instructions (where the optional alignment hint is given but incorrect)
as LDR/STR, leading to register corruption. Detect these and correctly
treat them as unhandled, so that userspace gets the fault it expects.

Reported-by: Simon Hosie <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
---

Hi all,

This was met with a resounding silence a while back[1], but the bug is
still causing annoyance - apparently Clang intrinsics can be a little
over-eager with alignment hints. Regardless of whose fault that is,
the kernel shouldn't be silently mangling registers unexpectedly.

Any objections to me dropping this into the patch system?

Robin.

[1]:http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg328889.html


 arch/arm/mm/alignment.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c b/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c
index 0c1ab49..83792f4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
  * This code is not portable to processors with late data abort handling.
  */
 #define CODING_BITS(i) (i & 0x0e000000)
+#define COND_BITS(i)   (i & 0xf0000000)
 
 #define LDST_I_BIT(i)  (i & (1 << 26))         /* Immediate constant   */
 #define LDST_P_BIT(i)  (i & (1 << 24))         /* Preindex             */
@@ -821,6 +822,8 @@ do_alignment(unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr, struct 
pt_regs *regs)
                break;
 
        case 0x04000000:        /* ldr or str immediate */
+               if (COND_BITS(instr) == 0xf0000000) /* NEON VLDn, VSTn */
+                       goto bad;
                offset.un = OFFSET_BITS(instr);
                handler = do_alignment_ldrstr;
                break;
-- 
1.9.1


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