full-disclosure - Linux kernel file offset pointer races

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From: andfarm at teknovis.com (Andrew Farmer)
Subject: Linux kernel file offset pointer races

On 4 Aug 2004, at 03:22, Paul Starzetz wrote:
> Synopsis:  Linux kernel file offset pointer handling
> Product:   Linux kernel
> Version:   2.4 up to to and including 2.4.26, 2.6 up to to and
>            including 2.6.7
> Vendor:    http://www.kernel.org/
> URL:       http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0016-procleaks.txt
> CVE:       CAN-2004-0415
> Author:    Paul Starzetz <ihaquer@...c.pl>
> Date:      Aug 04, 2004
>

> Issue:
> ======
>
> A  critical  security  vulnerability  has been found in the Linux 
> kernel
> code handling 64bit file offset pointers.
...

Even discounting the mangling in this posting, the code doesn't work
as advertised under 2.6.7. I've tried a number of different scenarios:
multiple machines, slow storage, fast storage, large files, small files 
-
but _llseek(pfd, 0, 0, &off, SEEK_CUR) doesn't fail. Is this just 
because
I'm stupid or because the code supplied is incorrect?

Furthermore, mtrr_read doesn't seem to exist anywhere in the Linux 
kernel,
at least not by that name. The function in question would probably exist
in linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/if.c, but there's nothing of the sort
in there. Heck, the kernel code shown isn't even VALID.

My fault or Paul's?
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