linux-kernel - [PATCH] [4/50] xtensa: prevent arbitrary read in ptrace

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Message-Id: <20110728234408.5F8C22403FF@tassilo.jf.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:44:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	drosenberg@...curity.com, chris@...kel.net, oleg@...hat.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	ak@...ux.intel.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...nel.org, tim.bird@...sony.com
Subject: [PATCH] [4/50] xtensa: prevent arbitrary read in ptrace

2.6.35-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------
From: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>

[ upstream commit 0d0138ebe24b94065580bd2601f8bb7eb6152f56 ]

Prevent an arbitrary kernel read.  Check the user pointer with access_ok()
before copying data in.

[akpm@...ux-foundation.org: s/EIO/EFAULT/]
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>
Cc: Christian Zankel <chris@...kel.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: <stable@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>

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);
--
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