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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2014-06-02 11:47:23 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-06-30 20:13:55 -0700
commit993e3e16565178b94d38c20fd1c81eb020b2fe8f (patch)
treee653c244a087eda302e4de316aa4659473cdd12e /arch
parent3d672e43c3dc0549fee9af8b6b6142dfba425d62 (diff)
arm64: ptrace: change fs when passing kernel pointer to regset code
commit c168870704bcde6bb63d05f7882b620dd3985a46 upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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 6a8928bba03..bf288e443a9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -821,6 +821,7 @@ 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;
@@ -828,10 +829,13 @@ 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;
}