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authorDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2012-03-23 15:02:40 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-23 16:58:40 -0700
commit8c5cf9e5c50dc902713897e10201aa71f3546aa1 (patch)
tree9d5590690c0bf2b596697768972b8d42de2e8a28 /kernel
parentb1845ff53f1a9eadba005ae53dfe60ab00dfe83b (diff)
downloadlinux-8c5cf9e5c50dc902713897e10201aa71f3546aa1.tar.gz
ptrace: don't modify flags on PTRACE_SETOPTIONS failure
On ptrace(PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, pid, 0, <opts>), we used to set those
option bits which are known, and then fail with -EINVAL if there are
some unknown bits in <opts>.

This is inconsistent with typical error handling, which does not change
any state if input is invalid.

This patch changes PTRACE_SETOPTIONS behavior so that in this case, we
return -EINVAL and don't change any bits in task->ptrace.

It's very unlikely that there is userspace code in the wild which will
be affected by this change: it should have the form

    ptrace(PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, pid, 0, PTRACE_O_BOGUSOPT)

where PTRACE_O_BOGUSOPT is a constant unknown to the kernel.  But kernel
headers, naturally, don't contain any PTRACE_O_BOGUSOPTs, thus the only
way userspace can use one if it defines one itself.  I can't see why
anyone would do such a thing deliberately.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/ptrace.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 00ab2ca5ed11..273f56ea39d2 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -528,6 +528,9 @@ int ptrace_writedata(struct task_struct *tsk, char __user *src, unsigned long ds
 
 static int ptrace_setoptions(struct task_struct *child, unsigned long data)
 {
+	if (data & ~(unsigned long)PTRACE_O_MASK)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	child->ptrace &= ~PT_TRACE_MASK;
 
 	if (data & PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD)
@@ -551,7 +554,7 @@ static int ptrace_setoptions(struct task_struct *child, unsigned long data)
 	if (data & PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT)
 		child->ptrace |= PT_TRACE_EXIT;
 
-	return (data & ~PTRACE_O_MASK) ? -EINVAL : 0;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static int ptrace_getsiginfo(struct task_struct *child, siginfo_t *info)