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author | Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com> | 2011-07-25 20:11:53 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-07-25 23:57:07 -0400 |
commit | 0d0138ebe24b94065580bd2601f8bb7eb6152f56 (patch) | |
tree | 13ab981dbddd25b57bb821394d0a3c78bf8fb25a /arch/xtensa | |
parent | 67db392d1124e14684e23deb572de2a63b9b3b69 (diff) |
xtensa: prevent arbitrary read in ptrace
Prevent an arbitrary kernel read. Check the user pointer with access_ok()
before copying data in.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/EIO/EFAULT/]
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Cc: Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/xtensa')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/xtensa/kernel/ptrace.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/xtensa/kernel/ptrace.c index c72c9473ef99..a0d042aa2967 100644 --- a/arch/xtensa/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/xtensa/kernel/ptrace.c | |||
@@ -147,6 +147,9 @@ int ptrace_setxregs(struct task_struct *child, void __user *uregs) | |||
147 | elf_xtregs_t *xtregs = uregs; | 147 | elf_xtregs_t *xtregs = uregs; |
148 | int ret = 0; | 148 | int ret = 0; |
149 | 149 | ||
150 | if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, uregs, sizeof(elf_xtregs_t))) | ||
151 | return -EFAULT; | ||
152 | |||
150 | #if XTENSA_HAVE_COPROCESSORS | 153 | #if XTENSA_HAVE_COPROCESSORS |
151 | /* Flush all coprocessors before we overwrite them. */ | 154 | /* Flush all coprocessors before we overwrite them. */ |
152 | coprocessor_flush_all(ti); | 155 | coprocessor_flush_all(ti); |