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| author | Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> | 2006-03-23 02:59:39 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-23 07:38:04 -0800 |
| commit | 3c36c6aa4aa1b3483c6a0370028608367426f58e (patch) | |
| tree | 2eaa033543eb67536f7da6ac1912f7a41e87ff7e /arch/i386 | |
| parent | cc04ee9cc527e314e6906849ee931c33764f861e (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.c | 4 |
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 |