Re: [PATCH 3.18 055/104] arm64: futex: Fix FUTEX_WAKE_OP atomic ops with non-zero result value

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Wed Apr 24 2019 - 13:35:33 EST


Hi Greg,

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 07:09:12PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
>
> commit 045afc24124d80c6998d9c770844c67912083506 upstream.
>
> Rather embarrassingly, our futex() FUTEX_WAKE_OP implementation doesn't
> explicitly set the return value on the non-faulting path and instead
> leaves it holding the result of the underlying atomic operation. This
> means that any FUTEX_WAKE_OP atomic operation which computes a non-zero
> value will be reported as having failed. Regrettably, I wrote the buggy
> code back in 2011 and it was upstreamed as part of the initial arm64
> support in 2012.
>
> The reasons we appear to get away with this are:
>
> 1. FUTEX_WAKE_OP is rarely used and therefore doesn't appear to get
> exercised by futex() test applications
>
> 2. If the result of the atomic operation is zero, the system call
> behaves correctly
>
> 3. Prior to version 2.25, the only operation used by GLIBC set the
> futex to zero, and therefore worked as expected. From 2.25 onwards,
> FUTEX_WAKE_OP is not used by GLIBC at all.
>
> Fix the implementation by ensuring that the return value is either 0
> to indicate that the atomic operation completed successfully, or -EFAULT
> if we encountered a fault when accessing the user mapping.
>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 6170a97460db ("arm64: Atomic operations")
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h | 16 ++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h
> @@ -26,8 +26,8 @@
> asm volatile( \
> "1: ldxr %w1, %2\n" \
> insn "\n" \
> -"2: stlxr %w3, %w0, %2\n" \
> -" cbnz %w3, 1b\n" \
> +"2: stlxr %w0, %w3, %2\n" \
> +" cbnz %w0, 1b\n" \
> " dmb ish\n" \
> "3:\n" \
> " .pushsection .fixup,\"ax\"\n" \
> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ futex_atomic_op_inuser(unsigned int enco
> int cmp = (encoded_op >> 24) & 15;
> int oparg = (int)(encoded_op << 8) >> 20;
> int cmparg = (int)(encoded_op << 20) >> 20;
> - int oldval = 0, ret, tmp;
> + int oldval, ret, tmp;

Please ensure the follow up fix gets queued up for 3.18 as well
(backport attached).

Thanks,
Nathan

>
> if (encoded_op & (FUTEX_OP_OPARG_SHIFT << 28))
> oparg = 1U << (oparg & 0x1f);
> @@ -62,23 +62,23 @@ futex_atomic_op_inuser(unsigned int enco
>
> switch (op) {
> case FUTEX_OP_SET:
> - __futex_atomic_op("mov %w0, %w4",
> + __futex_atomic_op("mov %w3, %w4",
> ret, oldval, uaddr, tmp, oparg);
> break;
> case FUTEX_OP_ADD:
> - __futex_atomic_op("add %w0, %w1, %w4",
> + __futex_atomic_op("add %w3, %w1, %w4",
> ret, oldval, uaddr, tmp, oparg);
> break;
> case FUTEX_OP_OR:
> - __futex_atomic_op("orr %w0, %w1, %w4",
> + __futex_atomic_op("orr %w3, %w1, %w4",
> ret, oldval, uaddr, tmp, oparg);
> break;
> case FUTEX_OP_ANDN:
> - __futex_atomic_op("and %w0, %w1, %w4",
> + __futex_atomic_op("and %w3, %w1, %w4",
> ret, oldval, uaddr, tmp, ~oparg);
> break;
> case FUTEX_OP_XOR:
> - __futex_atomic_op("eor %w0, %w1, %w4",
> + __futex_atomic_op("eor %w3, %w1, %w4",
> ret, oldval, uaddr, tmp, oparg);
> break;
> default:
>
>