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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 17:36:01 +0000 (10:36 -0700)
commitffbe3723f2af0edae78692b24cd50f123e3282be
treed0d481a76e9f59b1be48ed6303f9913c6bc9d995
parent09940cc53dc87b7c24f4a0639244901944b85e01
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