Overview
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
riscv:uprobe fix SR_SPIE set/clear handling
In riscv the process of uprobe going to clear spie before exec
the origin insn,and set spie after that.But When access the page
which origin insn has been placed a page fault may happen and
irq was disabled in arch_uprobe_pre_xol function,It cause a WARN
as follows.
There is no need to clear/set spie in arch_uprobe_pre/post/abort_xol.
We can just remove it.
[ 31.684157] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1488
[ 31.684677] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 76, name: work
[ 31.684929] preempt_count: 0, expected: 0
[ 31.685969] CPU: 2 PID: 76 Comm: work Tainted: G
[ 31.686542] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[ 31.686797] Call Trace:
[ 31.687053] [<ffffffff80006442>] dump_backtrace+0x30/0x38
[ 31.687699] [<ffffffff80812118>] show_stack+0x40/0x4c
[ 31.688141] [<ffffffff8081817a>] dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5c
[ 31.688396] [<ffffffff808181aa>] dump_stack+0x18/0x20
[ 31.688653] [<ffffffff8003e454>] __might_resched+0x114/0x122
[ 31.688948] [<ffffffff8003e4b2>] __might_sleep+0x50/0x7a
[ 31.689435] [<ffffffff80822676>] down_read+0x30/0x130
[ 31.689728] [<ffffffff8000b650>] do_page_fault+0x166/x446
[ 31.689997] [<ffffffff80003c0c>] ret_from_exception+0x0/0xc