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authorRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>2009-02-27 22:03:24 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-03-02 18:41:30 -0500
commitccbe495caa5e604b04d5a31d7459a6f6a76a756c (patch)
tree9fea231e87d57869e4f6ecbbdb0cbd4a51bb6873 /arch/x86
parent778ef1e6cbb049c9bcbf405936ee6f2b6e451892 (diff)
x86-64: syscall-audit: fix 32/64 syscall hole
On x86-64, a 32-bit process (TIF_IA32) can switch to 64-bit mode with ljmp, and then use the "syscall" instruction to make a 64-bit system call. A 64-bit process make a 32-bit system call with int $0x80. In both these cases, audit_syscall_entry() will use the wrong system call number table and the wrong system call argument registers. This could be used to circumvent a syscall audit configuration that filters based on the syscall numbers or argument details. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
index 5a4c23d89892..06ca07f6ad86 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1388,7 +1388,7 @@ void send_sigtrap(struct task_struct *tsk, struct pt_regs *regs,
1388#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 1388#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
1389# define IS_IA32 1 1389# define IS_IA32 1
1390#elif defined CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION 1390#elif defined CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
1391# define IS_IA32 test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32) 1391# define IS_IA32 is_compat_task()
1392#else 1392#else
1393# define IS_IA32 0 1393# define IS_IA32 0
1394#endif 1394#endif