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>
Fri, 5 Aug 2011 04:58:39 +0000 (21:58 -0700)
commitf7ac7c5b73c4f78f83202f8ec54ef1a73b9c5abe
tree4b346639150d015b87b65447bdaa7f1bfe3d33a9
parent650957da7699e730e78e82735b8c2595fcf7794a
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