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-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c16
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
index e4ebe1a6228e..6b405a3f43f9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
@@ -835,11 +835,21 @@ long sys_swapcontext(struct ucontext __user *old_ctx,
return -EINVAL;
if (old_ctx != NULL) {
+ struct mcontext __user *mctx;
+
+ /*
+ * old_ctx might not be 16-byte aligned, in which
+ * case old_ctx->uc_mcontext won't be either.
+ * Because we have the old_ctx->uc_pad2 field
+ * before old_ctx->uc_mcontext, we need to round down
+ * from &old_ctx->uc_mcontext to a 16-byte boundary.
+ */
+ mctx = (struct mcontext __user *)
+ ((unsigned long) &old_ctx->uc_mcontext & ~0xfUL);
if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, old_ctx, sizeof(*old_ctx))
- || save_user_regs(regs, &old_ctx->uc_mcontext, 0)
+ || save_user_regs(regs, mctx, 0)
|| put_sigset_t(&old_ctx->uc_sigmask, &current->blocked)
- || __put_user(to_user_ptr(&old_ctx->uc_mcontext),
- &old_ctx->uc_regs))
+ || __put_user(to_user_ptr(mctx), &old_ctx->uc_regs))
return -EFAULT;
}
if (new_ctx == NULL)