powerpc: Fix msr check in compat_sys_swapcontext
The new context may not be 16-byte aligned, so the real address of the
mcontext structure should be read from the uc_regs pointer instead of
directly using the (unaligned) uc_mcontext field.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
index a6a4310..b13abf3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
@@ -941,9 +941,21 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
unsigned long new_msr = 0;
- if (new_ctx &&
- get_user(new_msr, &new_ctx->uc_mcontext.mc_gregs[PT_MSR]))
- return -EFAULT;
+ if (new_ctx) {
+ struct mcontext __user *mcp;
+ u32 cmcp;
+
+ /*
+ * Get pointer to the real mcontext. No need for
+ * access_ok since we are dealing with compat
+ * pointers.
+ */
+ if (__get_user(cmcp, &new_ctx->uc_regs))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ mcp = (struct mcontext __user *)(u64)cmcp;
+ if (__get_user(new_msr, &mcp->mc_gregs[PT_MSR]))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ }
/*
* Check that the context is not smaller than the original
* size (with VMX but without VSX)