[PATCH] x86_64: Don't allow accesses below register frame in ptrace

There was a "off by one quad word" error in there.  I don't think it is
exploitable because it will only store into a unused area, but better to plug
it.

Found and fixed by John Blackwood

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c
index 60dc9b98951d..525f6a128a27 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ptrace(long request, long pid, unsigned long addr, long data
                         break;
 
                 switch (addr) { 
-                case 0 ... sizeof(struct user_regs_struct):
+                case 0 ... sizeof(struct user_regs_struct) - sizeof(long):
                         tmp = getreg(child, addr);
                         break;
                 case offsetof(struct user, u_debugreg[0]):
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ptrace(long request, long pid, unsigned long addr, long data
                         break;
 
                 switch (addr) { 
-                case 0 ... sizeof(struct user_regs_struct): 
+                case 0 ... sizeof(struct user_regs_struct) - sizeof(long):
                         ret = putreg(child, addr, data);
                         break;
                 /* Disallows to set a breakpoint into the vsyscall */