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commit 23446cad92195d8c50092410b4f72ca7f6d1d2f1
Author: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Thu Aug 18 11:38:28 2016 +0200
arm: mark __startcontext as .cantunwind (bug 20435)
__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.
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0598caa..178aab2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2016-08-15 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
+
+ [BZ #20435]
+ * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/setcontext.S (__startcontext): Mark
+ as .cantunwind.
+
2016-08-17 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
[BZ #20452]
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 07f3fe8..e03e9f1 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ Security related changes:
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)
+
The following bugs are resolved with this release:
[19679] gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to unaligned stack
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/setcontext.S b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/setcontext.S
index 603e508..d1f168f 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/setcontext.S
+++ b/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
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ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
NEWS | 6 ++++++
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/setcontext.S | 7 +++++++
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