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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)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:57:07 +0000 (20:57 -0700)
commit3e2c72c7535422fe3070493ab196dfca30078f1a
tree13ab981dbddd25b57bb821394d0a3c78bf8fb25a
parentd7165c172d14298990855bb5508a73c4c68800fd
xtensa: prevent arbitrary read in ptrace

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>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/xtensa/kernel/ptrace.c