linux-kernel - Re: PTRACE_SYSCALL && vsyscall (Was: arch_check_bp_in

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Message-ID: <20130114160153.GA16555@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:01:53 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	u3557@...o.sublimeip.com
Cc:	Pedro Alves <palves@...hat.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@...hat.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PTRACE_SYSCALL && vsyscall (Was: arch_check_bp_in_kernelspace:
	fix the range check)

On 01/14, u3557@...o.sublimeip.com wrote:
>
> So here again is the patch that I need so badly - clearly it fixes a bug
> and harms nobody:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> diff -Naur before/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> after/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> --- before/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c	2013-01-14 12:45:20.000000000
> +1030
> +++ after/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c	2013-01-14 12:46:24.000000000 +1030
> @@ -200,7 +200,8 @@
>  	va = info->address;
>  	len = get_hbp_len(info->len);
> 
> -	return (va >= TASK_SIZE) && ((va + len - 1) >= TASK_SIZE);
> +	return (va >= TASK_SIZE) && ((va + len - 1) >= TASK_SIZE) &&
> +		!((va >= VSYSCALL_START) && ((va + len - 1) <= VSYSCALL_END));
>  }

I meant this one: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=135336050319266
on top of http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=135248575426474

But nobody bothers to take even the trivial bugfix I sent ;)

Oleg.

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