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authorNick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>2016-03-23 13:40:14 +0100
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2016-03-23 13:40:14 +0100
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x86, pthread_cond_*wait: Do not depend on %eax not being clobbered
The x86-specific versions of both pthread_cond_wait and
pthread_cond_timedwait have (in their fall-back-to-futex-wait slow
paths) calls to __pthread_mutex_cond_lock_adjust followed by
__pthread_mutex_unlock_usercnt, which load the parameters before the
first call but then assume that the first parameter, in %eax, will
survive unaffected.  This happens to have been true before now, but %eax
is a call-clobbered register, and this assumption is not safe: it could
change at any time, at GCC's whim, and indeed the stack-protector canary
checking code clobbers %eax while checking that the canary is
uncorrupted.

So reload %eax before calling __pthread_mutex_unlock_usercnt.  (Do this
unconditionally, even when stack-protection is not in use, because it's
the right thing to do, it's a slow path, and anything else is dicing
with death.)

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/pthread_cond_timedwait.S: Reload
	call-clobbered %eax on retry path.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/pthread_cond_wait.S: Likewise.
Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps/unix')
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/pthread_cond_timedwait.S1
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/pthread_cond_wait.S1
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/pthread_cond_timedwait.S b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/pthread_cond_timedwait.S
index 96f8a8dc73..6256376923 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/pthread_cond_timedwait.S
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/pthread_cond_timedwait.S
@@ -297,6 +297,7 @@ __pthread_cond_timedwait:
 	   correctly.  */
 	movl	dep_mutex(%ebx), %eax
 	call	__pthread_mutex_cond_lock_adjust
+	movl	dep_mutex(%ebx), %eax
 	xorl	%edx, %edx
 	call	__pthread_mutex_unlock_usercnt
 	jmp	8b
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/pthread_cond_wait.S b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/pthread_cond_wait.S
index 94302b0641..5016718801 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/pthread_cond_wait.S
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/pthread_cond_wait.S
@@ -309,6 +309,7 @@ __pthread_cond_wait:
 	   correctly.  */
 	movl	dep_mutex(%ebx), %eax
 	call    __pthread_mutex_cond_lock_adjust
+	movl	dep_mutex(%ebx), %eax
 	xorl	%edx, %edx
 	call	__pthread_mutex_unlock_usercnt
 	jmp	8b