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author | Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> | 2008-11-20 10:54:09 +0100 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-11-20 13:09:17 -0800 |
commit | ed79b86d8acf1f3d3bb83f04dc216c8dfa1d5970 (patch) | |
tree | 21b22f18d7486c55133669c8425bfa9561f6f23a /mm/vmscan.c | |
parent | ee2f6cc7f9ea2542ad46070ed62ba7aa04d08871 (diff) |
parisc: fix bug in compat_arch_ptrace
Commit 81e192d6ce303b6792aa38ff35f41a1a7357f23a ("parisc: convert to
generic compat_sys_ptrace") introduced a bug which segfaults the parisc
64bit kernel when stracing 32bit applications:
Kernel Fault: Code=15 regs=00000000bafa42b0 (Addr=00000001baf5ab57)
YZrvWESTHLNXBCVMcbcbcbcbOGFRQPDI
PSW: 00001000000001101111111100001011 Tainted: G W
r00-03 000000ff0806ff0b 000000004068edc0 00000000401203f8 00000000fb3e2508
r04-07 0000000040686dc0 00000000baf5a800 fffffffffffffffc fffffffffb3e2508
r08-11 00000000baf5a800 000000000004b068 00000000000402b0 0000000000040d68
r12-15 0000000000042a9c 0000000000040a9c 0000000000040d60 0000000000042e9c
r16-19 000000000004b060 000000000004b058 0000000000042d9c ffffffffffffffff
r20-23 000000000800000b 0000000000000000 000000000800000b fffffffffb3e2508
r24-27 00000000fffffffc 0000000000000003 00000000fffffffc 0000000040686dc0
r28-31 00000001baf5a7ff 00000000bafa4280 00000000bafa42b0 00000000000001d7
sr00-03 0000000000fca000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000fca000
sr04-07 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
IASQ: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 IAOQ: 0000000040120400 0000000040120404
IIR: 4b9a06b0 ISR: 0000000000000000 IOR: 00000001baf5ab57
CPU: 0 CR30: 00000000bafa4000 CR31: 00000000d22344e0
ORIG_R28: 00000000fb3e2248
IAOQ[0]: compat_arch_ptrace+0xb8/0x160
IAOQ[1]: compat_arch_ptrace+0xbc/0x160
RP(r2): compat_arch_ptrace+0xb0/0x160
Backtrace:
[<00000000401612ac>] compat_sys_ptrace+0x15c/0x180
[<0000000040104ef8>] syscall_exit+0x0/0x14
The problem is that compat_arch_ptrace() enters with an addr value of
type compat_ulong_t and calls translate_usr_offset() to translate the
address offset into a struct pt_regs offset like this:
addr = translate_usr_offset(addr)
this means that any return value of translate_usr_offset() is stored
back as compat_ulong_t type into the addr variable.
But since translate_usr_offset() returns -1 for invalid offsets, addr
can now get the value 0xffffffff which then fails the next return-value
sanity check and thus the kernel tries to access invalid memory:
if (addr < 0)
break;
Fix this bug by modifying translate_usr_offset() to take and return
values of type compat_ulong_t, and by returning the value
"sizeof(struct pt_regs)" as an error indicator.
Additionally change the sanity check to check for return values
for >= sizeof(struct pt_regs).
This patch survived my compile and run-tests.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
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