Re: Regression: audit: x86: drop arch from __audit_syscall_entry() interface

[Eric Paris]

On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 23:36 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Eric Paris wrote:
> 
> > That's really serious.  Looking now.
> 
> Indeed its serious. And it's even more serious as this masterpiece of
> assembly wreckage was pulled in via your tree w/o having an acked-by
> one of the x86 maintainers.
> 
> > On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 16:08 -0200, Paulo Zanoni wrote:
> > > commit b4f0d3755c5e9cc86292d5fd78261903b4f23d4a
> > > Author: Richard Guy Briggs
> > > Date:   Tue Mar 4 10:38:06 2014 -0500
> > >     audit: x86: drop arch from __audit_syscall_entry() interface
> > > 
> > > According to our QA, their i386 machine doesn't boot anymore. I tried
> > > to write my own revert for the patch, asked QA to test, and they
> > > confirmed it "solves" the problem.
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
> index 0d0c9d4ab6d5..f9e3fabc8716 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
> @@ -449,12 +449,11 @@ sysenter_audit:
>  	jnz syscall_trace_entry
>  	addl $4,%esp
>  	CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET -4
> -	/* %esi already in 8(%esp)	   6th arg: 4th syscall arg */
> -	/* %edx already in 4(%esp)	   5th arg: 3rd syscall arg */
> -	/* %ecx already in 0(%esp)	   4th arg: 2nd syscall arg */
> -	movl %ebx,%ecx			/* 3rd arg: 1st syscall arg */
> -	movl %eax,%edx			/* 2nd arg: syscall number */
> -	movl $AUDIT_ARCH_I386,%eax	/* 1st arg: audit arch */
> +	movl %esi,4(%esp)		/* 5th arg: 4th syscall arg */
> +	movl %edx,(%esp)		/* 4th arg: 3rd syscall arg */
> 
> Bilndly overwriting the stack which holds the syscall arguments is
> really a brilliant way to ensure security.

It was sent, numerous times, to the x86 list for reviews, and lived in
-next for 2 complete devel cycles without a complaint.  I'm trying to
get an i386 system to test a fix.  But yes, it's total crap.

-Eric


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