From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756077Ab1G1XoL (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:44:11 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:30203 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755457Ab1G1XoI (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:44:08 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,285,1309762800"; d="scan'208";a="33351662" From: Andi Kleen References: <20110728444.299940435@firstfloor.org> In-Reply-To: <20110728444.299940435@firstfloor.org> To: drosenberg@vsecurity.com, chris@zankel.net, oleg@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, ak@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, tim.bird@am.sony.com Subject: [PATCH] [4/50] xtensa: prevent arbitrary read in ptrace Message-Id: <20110728234408.5F8C22403FF@tassilo.jf.intel.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:44:08 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2.6.35-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dan Rosenberg [ upstream commit 0d0138ebe24b94065580bd2601f8bb7eb6152f56 ] 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 Cc: Christian Zankel Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Index: linux-2.6.35.y/arch/xtensa/kernel/ptrace.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.35.y.orig/arch/xtensa/kernel/ptrace.c +++ linux-2.6.35.y/arch/xtensa/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -147,6 +147,9 @@ int ptrace_setxregs(struct task_struct * elf_xtregs_t *xtregs = uregs; int ret = 0; + if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, uregs, sizeof(elf_xtregs_t))) + return -EFAULT; + #if XTENSA_HAVE_COPROCESSORS /* Flush all coprocessors before we overwrite them. */ coprocessor_flush_all(ti);