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x86, x32, ptrace: Remove PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL for x32
authorH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Tue, 22 May 2012 03:29:45 +0000 (20:29 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 9 Jun 2012 15:36:12 +0000 (00:36 +0900)
commitcdd5479bf6cfbaf84308beda5b76037dbea471b1
tree16c6262a359da4b5173c02dfbd208cfc004477dd
parentfd62fa971584007e612be6e531101842de97715a
x86, x32, ptrace: Remove PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL for x32

commit bad1a753d4d4deb09d4bc0bac1dd4fc3298502e9 upstream.

When I added x32 ptrace to 3.4 kernel, I also include PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL
support for x32 GDB  For ARCH_GET_FS/GS, it takes a pointer to int64.  But
at user level, ARCH_GET_FS/GS takes a pointer to int32.  So I have to add
x32 ptrace to glibc to handle it with a temporary int64 passed to kernel and
copy it back to GDB as int32.  Roland suggested that PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL
is obsolete and x32 GDB should use fs_base and gs_base fields of
user_regs_struct instead.

Accordingly, remove PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL completely from the x32 code to
avoid possible memory overrun when pointer to int32 is passed to
kernel.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMe9rOpDzHfS7NH7m1vmD9QRw8SSj4Sc%2BaNOgcWm_WJME2eRsQ@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c