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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2014-06-02 11:47:23 +0100
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2014-06-18 12:40:57 +0100
commitc168870704bcde6bb63d05f7882b620dd3985a46 (patch)
tree174f2ba42679903c0178f1a684adcad893e18b4e /arch
parent2d5a5612bceda8edd25b29f363c4e2c6cda28bab (diff)
arm64: ptrace: change fs when passing kernel pointer to regset code
Our compat PTRACE_POKEUSR implementation simply passes the user data to regset_copy_from_user after some simple range checking. Unfortunately, the data in question has already been copied to the kernel stack by this point, so the subsequent access_ok check fails and the ptrace request returns -EFAULT. This causes problems tracing fork() with older versions of strace. This patch briefly changes the fs to KERNEL_DS, so that the access_ok check passes even with a kernel address. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
index 3e926b9c064..993cdb79b70 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -827,6 +827,7 @@ static int compat_ptrace_write_user(struct task_struct *tsk, compat_ulong_t off,
compat_ulong_t val)
{
int ret;
+ mm_segment_t old_fs = get_fs();
if (off & 3 || off >= COMPAT_USER_SZ)
return -EIO;
@@ -834,10 +835,13 @@ static int compat_ptrace_write_user(struct task_struct *tsk, compat_ulong_t off,
if (off >= sizeof(compat_elf_gregset_t))
return 0;
+ set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
ret = copy_regset_from_user(tsk, &user_aarch32_view,
REGSET_COMPAT_GPR, off,
sizeof(compat_ulong_t),
&val);
+ set_fs(old_fs);
+
return ret;
}