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xtensa: prevent arbitrary read in ptrace
authorDan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:11:53 +0000 (17:11 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 8 Aug 2011 17:23:13 +0000 (10:23 -0700)
commitb259a3c0e4348587e06fbabd828fb878457c5dad
treefc18c4daec04bd2308b925ab9650c33aa3dd89f1
parent78a4ddf99d27b83ca7b9720338b1030206db4a0e
xtensa: prevent arbitrary read in ptrace

commit 0d0138ebe24b94065580bd2601f8bb7eb6152f56 upstream.

Prevent an arbitrary kernel read.  Check the user pointer with access_ok()
before copying data in.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/EIO/EFAULT/]
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Cc: Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/xtensa/kernel/ptrace.c