elf core dump: fix get_user use
authorRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Sat, 7 Feb 2009 01:34:07 +0000 (17:34 -0800)
committerRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Sat, 7 Feb 2009 01:34:07 +0000 (17:34 -0800)
The elf_core_dump() code does its work with set_fs(KERNEL_DS) in force,
so vma_dump_size() needs to switch back with set_fs(USER_DS) to safely
use get_user() for a normal user-space address.

Checking for VM_READ optimizes out the case where get_user() would fail
anyway.  The vm_file check here was already superfluous given the control
flow earlier in the function, so that is a cleanup/optimization unrelated
to other changes but an obvious and trivial one.

Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
fs/binfmt_elf.c

index e3ff2b9..33b7235 100644 (file)
@@ -1208,9 +1208,11 @@ static unsigned long vma_dump_size(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
         * check for an ELF header.  If we find one, dump the first page to
         * aid in determining what was mapped here.
         */
-       if (FILTER(ELF_HEADERS) && vma->vm_file != NULL && vma->vm_pgoff == 0) {
+       if (FILTER(ELF_HEADERS) &&
+           vma->vm_pgoff == 0 && (vma->vm_flags & VM_READ)) {
                u32 __user *header = (u32 __user *) vma->vm_start;
                u32 word;
+               mm_segment_t fs = get_fs();
                /*
                 * Doing it this way gets the constant folded by GCC.
                 */
@@ -1223,7 +1225,15 @@ static unsigned long vma_dump_size(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
                magic.elfmag[EI_MAG1] = ELFMAG1;
                magic.elfmag[EI_MAG2] = ELFMAG2;
                magic.elfmag[EI_MAG3] = ELFMAG3;
-               if (get_user(word, header) == 0 && word == magic.cmp)
+               /*
+                * Switch to the user "segment" for get_user(),
+                * then put back what elf_core_dump() had in place.
+                */
+               set_fs(USER_DS);
+               if (unlikely(get_user(word, header)))
+                       word = 0;
+               set_fs(fs);
+               if (word == magic.cmp)
                        return PAGE_SIZE;
        }