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authorSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>2005-06-21 17:14:32 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-21 18:46:12 -0700
commit84929801e14d968caeb84795bfbb88f04283fbd9 (patch)
tree248fa9fd6cfb411a6df3b7f7fb42aa4f9ceca2bf /arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c
parent589777eab7360894b7ca1c4ba9d252e03b51225b (diff)
[PATCH] x86_64: TASK_SIZE fixes for compatibility mode processes
Appended patch will setup compatibility mode TASK_SIZE properly. This will fix atleast three known bugs that can be encountered while running compatibility mode apps. a) A malicious 32bit app can have an elf section at 0xffffe000. During exec of this app, we will have a memory leak as insert_vm_struct() is not checking for return value in syscall32_setup_pages() and thus not freeing the vma allocated for the vsyscall page. And instead of exec failing (as it has addresses > TASK_SIZE), we were allowing it to succeed previously. b) With a 32bit app, hugetlb_get_unmapped_area/arch_get_unmapped_area may return addresses beyond 32bits, ultimately causing corruption because of wrap-around and resulting in SEGFAULT, instead of returning ENOMEM. c) 32bit app doing this below mmap will now fail. mmap((void *)(0xFFFFE000UL), 0x10000UL, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_FIXED|MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON, 0, 0); Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c17
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c
index 525f6a128a2..bbf64b59a21 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -257,12 +257,12 @@ static int putreg(struct task_struct *child,
value &= 0xffff;
return 0;
case offsetof(struct user_regs_struct,fs_base):
- if (value >= TASK_SIZE)
+ if (value >= TASK_SIZE_OF(child))
return -EIO;
child->thread.fs = value;
return 0;
case offsetof(struct user_regs_struct,gs_base):
- if (value >= TASK_SIZE)
+ if (value >= TASK_SIZE_OF(child))
return -EIO;
child->thread.gs = value;
return 0;
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ static int putreg(struct task_struct *child,
break;
case offsetof(struct user_regs_struct, rip):
/* Check if the new RIP address is canonical */
- if (value >= TASK_SIZE)
+ if (value >= TASK_SIZE_OF(child))
return -EIO;
break;
}
@@ -419,6 +419,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ptrace(long request, long pid, unsigned long addr, long data
break;
case PTRACE_POKEUSR: /* write the word at location addr in the USER area */
+ {
+ int dsize = test_tsk_thread_flag(child, TIF_IA32) ? 3 : 7;
ret = -EIO;
if ((addr & 7) ||
addr > sizeof(struct user) - 7)
@@ -430,22 +432,22 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ptrace(long request, long pid, unsigned long addr, long data
break;
/* Disallows to set a breakpoint into the vsyscall */
case offsetof(struct user, u_debugreg[0]):
- if (data >= TASK_SIZE-7) break;
+ if (data >= TASK_SIZE_OF(child) - dsize) break;
child->thread.debugreg0 = data;
ret = 0;
break;
case offsetof(struct user, u_debugreg[1]):
- if (data >= TASK_SIZE-7) break;
+ if (data >= TASK_SIZE_OF(child) - dsize) break;
child->thread.debugreg1 = data;
ret = 0;
break;
case offsetof(struct user, u_debugreg[2]):
- if (data >= TASK_SIZE-7) break;
+ if (data >= TASK_SIZE_OF(child) - dsize) break;
child->thread.debugreg2 = data;
ret = 0;
break;
case offsetof(struct user, u_debugreg[3]):
- if (data >= TASK_SIZE-7) break;
+ if (data >= TASK_SIZE_OF(child) - dsize) break;
child->thread.debugreg3 = data;
ret = 0;
break;
@@ -469,6 +471,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ptrace(long request, long pid, unsigned long addr, long data
break;
}
break;
+ }
case PTRACE_SYSCALL: /* continue and stop at next (return from) syscall */
case PTRACE_CONT: /* restart after signal. */