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authorChuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>2006-03-23 02:59:39 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-23 07:38:04 -0800
commit3c36c6aa4aa1b3483c6a0370028608367426f58e (patch)
tree2eaa033543eb67536f7da6ac1912f7a41e87ff7e /arch/i386
parentcc04ee9cc527e314e6906849ee931c33764f861e (diff)
[PATCH] i386: Don't let ptrace set the nested task bit
There's no good reason for allowing ptrace to set the NT bit in EFLAGS, so mask it off. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c
index 5c1fb6aada5..506462ef36a 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -34,10 +34,10 @@
/*
* Determines which flags the user has access to [1 = access, 0 = no access].
- * Prohibits changing ID(21), VIP(20), VIF(19), VM(17), IOPL(12-13), IF(9).
+ * Prohibits changing ID(21), VIP(20), VIF(19), VM(17), NT(14), IOPL(12-13), IF(9).
* Also masks reserved bits (31-22, 15, 5, 3, 1).
*/
-#define FLAG_MASK 0x00054dd5
+#define FLAG_MASK 0x00050dd5
/* set's the trap flag. */
#define TRAP_FLAG 0x100