From da58a1617343e345d435953a0f32024997a95164 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Dobriyan Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:40:21 -0700 Subject: /proc/*/environ: wrong placing of ptrace_may_attach() check It's a bit dopey-looking and can permit a task to cause a pagefault in an mm which it doesn't have permission to read from. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/proc/base.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/proc/base.c') diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index 46ea5d56e1b..d0921944e68 100644 --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -204,12 +204,17 @@ static int proc_pid_environ(struct task_struct *task, char * buffer) int res = 0; struct mm_struct *mm = get_task_mm(task); if (mm) { - unsigned int len = mm->env_end - mm->env_start; + unsigned int len; + + res = -ESRCH; + if (!ptrace_may_attach(task)) + goto out; + + len = mm->env_end - mm->env_start; if (len > PAGE_SIZE) len = PAGE_SIZE; res = access_process_vm(task, mm->env_start, buffer, len, 0); - if (!ptrace_may_attach(task)) - res = -ESRCH; +out: mmput(mm); } return res; -- cgit v1.2.3