[PATCH] ARC: entry: fix off-by-one error in syscall number validation

From: Vineet Gupta
Date: Fri Apr 23 2021 - 15:53:02 EST


We have NR_syscall syscalls from [0 .. NR_syscall-1].
However the check for invalid syscall number is "> NR_syscall".
This off-by-one error erronesously allows "NR_syscall" itself as valid
and when passed causes out-of-bounds syscall-call table access leading
to crash.

This problem showed up when testing glibc 2.33 (v5.10 kernel capable,
includng faccessat2 syscall (439) against a v5.6 kernel with
NR_syscalls=439 (0 to 438). Due to the bug, 439 was not returned with
-ENOSYS but processed leading to a crash.

Link: https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/linux/issues/48
Reported-by: Shahab Vahedi <shahab@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arc/kernel/entry.S | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arc/kernel/entry.S
index 1743506081da..aea9b558993d 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/entry.S
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ ENTRY(EV_Trap)
;============ Normal syscall case

; syscall num shd not exceed the total system calls avail
- cmp r8, NR_syscalls
+ cmp r8, NR_syscalls - 1
mov.hi r0, -ENOSYS
bhi .Lret_from_system_call

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