[2.19 COMMITTED] arm: mark __startcontext as .cantunwind (bug 20435)
Aurelien Jarno
aurelien@aurel32.net
Fri Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT 2016
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
__startcontext marks the bottom of the call stack of the contexts created
by makecontext.
(cherry picked from commit 9e2ff6c9cc54c0b4402b8d49e4abe7000fde7617)
Also includes the NEWS update, cherry-picked from commits
056dd72af83f5459ce6d545a49dea6dba7d635dc and
4d047efdbc55b0d68947cde682e5363d16a66294.
---
ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
NEWS | 6 ++++++
ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/setcontext.S | 7 +++++++
3 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3d2063b..30da116 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2016-08-15 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
+
+ [BZ #20435]
+ * ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/setcontext.S (__startcontext):
+ Mark as .cantunwind.
+
2015-02-24 Eric Rannaud <e@nanocritical.com>
[BZ #17523]
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 473e35a..a1bb834 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -96,6 +96,12 @@ Version 2.19.1
* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
+
+* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
+ have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
+ missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
+ (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
+ by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
Version 2.19
diff --git a/ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/setcontext.S b/ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/setcontext.S
index 7b9b511..7da16a9 100644
--- a/ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/setcontext.S
+++ b/ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/setcontext.S
@@ -86,12 +86,19 @@ weak_alias(__setcontext, setcontext)
/* Called when a makecontext() context returns. Start the
context in R4 or fall through to exit(). */
+ /* Unwind descriptors are looked up based on PC - 2, so we have to
+ make sure to mark the instruction preceding the __startcontext
+ label as .cantunwind. */
+ .fnstart
+ .cantunwind
+ nop
ENTRY(__startcontext)
movs r0, r4
bne PLTJMP(__setcontext)
@ New context was 0 - exit
b PLTJMP(HIDDEN_JUMPTARGET(_exit))
+ .fnend
END(__startcontext)
#ifdef PIC
--
2.8.1
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