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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 /Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example_explicit.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 'Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example_explicit.c')
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