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linux/arch/parisc
Helge Deller ed79b86d8a parisc: fix bug in compat_arch_ptrace
Commit 81e192d6ce ("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>
2008-11-20 13:09:17 -08:00
..
configs [PARISC] move defconfig to arch/parisc/configs/ 2008-03-15 19:12:08 -07:00
hpux [PATCH] prepare vfs_readdir() callers to returning filldir result 2008-10-23 05:13:10 -04:00
include/asm fix cpumask build breakage on parisc 2008-11-13 11:30:03 -08:00
kernel parisc: fix bug in compat_arch_ptrace 2008-11-20 13:09:17 -08:00
lib Revert "parisc: fix trivial section name warnings" 2008-06-13 10:49:45 -04:00
math-emu kbuild: fix up CFLAGS usage 2007-10-14 21:49:42 +02:00
mm mm: drop unneeded pgdat argument from free_area_init_node() 2008-07-24 10:47:16 -07:00
oprofile oprofile: more whitespace fixes 2008-10-15 20:55:51 +02:00
defpalo.conf Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
install.sh Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Kconfig Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6 2008-10-20 14:40:31 -07:00
Kconfig.debug alpha/parisc: remove config variable DEBUG_RWLOCK 2008-02-06 10:41:03 -08:00
Makefile [PARISC] move defconfig to arch/parisc/configs/ 2008-03-15 19:12:08 -07:00
nm Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00