glibc-2.24: Fix CVE-2016-6323 [No upstream tracking] -- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20435 arm: mark __startcontext as .cantunwind, GNU Glibc bug where the makecontext function would create an execution context which is incompatible with the unwinder, causing it to hang when the generation of a backtrace is attempted. Upstream-Status: Backport [https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=9e2ff6c9cc54c0b4402b8d49e4abe7000fde7617] CVE: CVE-2016-6323 Signed-off-by: Andrej Valek Signed-off-by: Pascal Bach 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