[PATCH 1/7] selftests/x86/ldt_gdt_32: Work around a glibc sigaction bug

[Andy Lutomirski]

i386 glibc is buggy and calls the sigaction syscall incorrectly.
This is asymptomatic for normal programs, but it blows up on
programs that do evil things with segmentation.  ldt_gdt an example
of such an evil program.

This doesn't appear to be a regression -- I think I just got lucky
with the uninitialized memory that glibc threw at the kernel when I
wrote the test.

This hackish fix manually issues sigaction(2) syscalls to undo the
damage.  Without the fix, ldt_gdt_32 segfaults; with the fix, it
passes for me.

See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21269

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/x86/ldt_gdt.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/x86/ldt_gdt.c b/tools/testing/selftests/x86/ldt_gdt.c
index f6121612e769..b9a22f18566a 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/x86/ldt_gdt.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/x86/ldt_gdt.c
@@ -409,6 +409,51 @@ static void *threadproc(void *ctx)
 	}
 }
 
+#ifdef __i386__
+
+#ifndef SA_RESTORE
+#define SA_RESTORER 0x04000000
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * The UAPI header calls this 'struct sigaction', which conflicts with
+ * glibc.  Sigh.
+ */
+struct fake_ksigaction {
+	void *handler;  /* the real type is nasty */
+	unsigned long sa_flags;
+	void (*sa_restorer)(void);
+	unsigned char sigset[8];
+};
+
+static void fix_sa_restorer(int sig)
+{
+	struct fake_ksigaction ksa;
+
+	if (syscall(SYS_rt_sigaction, sig, NULL, &ksa, 8) == 0) {
+		/*
+		 * glibc has a nasty bug: it sometimes writes garbage to
+		 * sa_restorer.  This interacts quite badly with anything
+		 * that fiddles with SS because it can trigger legacy
+		 * stack switching.  Patch it up.  See:
+		 *
+		 * https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21269
+		 */
+		if (!(ksa.sa_flags & SA_RESTORER) && ksa.sa_restorer) {
+			ksa.sa_restorer = NULL;
+			if (syscall(SYS_rt_sigaction, sig, &ksa, NULL,
+				    sizeof(ksa.sigset)) != 0)
+				err(1, "rt_sigaction");
+		}
+	}
+}
+#else
+static void fix_sa_restorer(int sig)
+{
+	/* 64-bit glibc works fine. */
+}
+#endif
+
 static void sethandler(int sig, void (*handler)(int, siginfo_t *, void *),
 		       int flags)
 {
@@ -420,6 +465,7 @@ static void sethandler(int sig, void (*handler)(int, siginfo_t *, void *),
 	if (sigaction(sig, &sa, 0))
 		err(1, "sigaction");
 
+	fix_sa_restorer(sig);
 }
 
 static jmp_buf jmpbuf;
-- 
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