[Bug tapsets/15219] syscall.exp failures on RHEL5, RHEL6, and rawhide

["dsmith at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15219

--- Comment #1 from David Smith <dsmith at redhat dot com> 2013-03-04 17:53:58 UTC ---
Here's compat_sys_timer_settime() from kernel/compat.c. Notice it converts the
'struct compat_itimerspec' to a 'struct itimerspec' (which is in kernel
memory), calls 'set_fs(KERENL_DS), then calls the real syscall function,
'sys_timer_settime()'.

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long compat_sys_timer_settime(timer_t timer_id, int flags,
              struct compat_itimerspec __user *new,
              struct compat_itimerspec __user *old)
{
    long err;
    mm_segment_t oldfs;
    struct itimerspec newts, oldts;

    if (!new)
        return -EINVAL;
    if (get_compat_itimerspec(&newts, new))
        return -EFAULT;
    oldfs = get_fs();
    set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
    err = sys_timer_settime(timer_id, flags,
                (struct itimerspec __user *) &newts,
                (struct itimerspec __user *) &oldts);
    set_fs(oldfs);
    if (!err && old && put_compat_itimerspec(old, &oldts))
        return -EFAULT;
    return err;
}
====

Here's our '_stp_copy_from_user()'. Notice we explicitly call
'set_fs(USER_DS)', which just overrode compat_sys_timer_settime() setting.

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static unsigned long _stp_copy_from_user(char *dst, const char __user *src,
unsigned long count)
{
    if (count) {
                mm_segment_t _oldfs = get_fs();
                set_fs(USER_DS);
                pagefault_disable();
        if (access_ok(VERIFY_READ, src, count))
            count = __copy_from_user_inatomic(dst, src, count);
        else
            memset(dst, 0, count);
                pagefault_enable();
                set_fs(_oldfs);
    }
    return count;
}
====

I'm thinking we should no longer change the kernel's idea of what memory space
to use in _stp_copy_from_user().

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