Subject: [PATCH] Fix msr check in compat_sys_swapcontext

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:30:57 +0100

The new context may not be 16-byte aligned, so the real address of the
mcontext structure should be read from the uc_regs pointer instead of
directly using the (unaligned) uc_mcontext field.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>

---
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
index a6a4310..dc10720 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
@@ -941,9 +941,17 @@ long sys_swapcontext(struct ucontext __user *old_ctx,
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
 	unsigned long new_msr = 0;
 
-	if (new_ctx &&
-	    get_user(new_msr, &new_ctx->uc_mcontext.mc_gregs[PT_MSR]))
-		return -EFAULT;
+	if (new_ctx) {
+		struct mcontext __user *mcp;
+		u32 cmcp;
+
+		/* Get pointer to the real mcontext. */
+		if (__get_user(cmcp, &new_ctx->uc_regs))
+			return -EFAULT;
+		mcp = (struct mcontext __user *)(u64)cmcp;
+		if (__get_user(new_msr, &mcp->mc_gregs[PT_MSR]))
+			return -EFAULT;
+	}
 	/*
 	 * Check that the context is not smaller than the original
 	 * size (with VMX but without VSX)

-- 
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