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authorAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>2005-05-20 14:27:56 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-05-20 15:48:20 -0700
commitc4d1fcf3a2ea89b6d6221fa8b4588c77aff50995 (patch)
treedd102e8f2e67231b91055830b689f203aefdb6cb /arch/x86_64
parentb41e29398a873945d02e0009ce7e57608fdb4042 (diff)
downloadlinux-c4d1fcf3a2ea89b6d6221fa8b4588c77aff50995.tar.gz
[PATCH] x86_64: Don't allow accesses below register frame in ptrace
There was a "off by one quad word" error in there.  I don't think it is
exploitable because it will only store into a unused area, but better to plug
it.

Found and fixed by John Blackwood

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c
index 60dc9b98951d..525f6a128a27 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ptrace(long request, long pid, unsigned long addr, long data
 			break;
 
 		switch (addr) { 
-		case 0 ... sizeof(struct user_regs_struct):
+		case 0 ... sizeof(struct user_regs_struct) - sizeof(long):
 			tmp = getreg(child, addr);
 			break;
 		case offsetof(struct user, u_debugreg[0]):
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ptrace(long request, long pid, unsigned long addr, long data
 			break;
 
 		switch (addr) { 
-		case 0 ... sizeof(struct user_regs_struct): 
+		case 0 ... sizeof(struct user_regs_struct) - sizeof(long):
 			ret = putreg(child, addr, data);
 			break;
 		/* Disallows to set a breakpoint into the vsyscall */