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Handle bogus %cs selector in single-step instruction decoding
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The code for LDT segment selectors was not robust in the face of a bogus
selector set in %cs via ptrace before the single-step was done.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roland McGrath authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jul 18, 2007
1 parent a267c0a commit 29eb511
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22 changes: 15 additions & 7 deletions arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c
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Expand Up @@ -164,14 +164,22 @@ static unsigned long convert_eip_to_linear(struct task_struct *child, struct pt_
u32 *desc;
unsigned long base;

down(&child->mm->context.sem);
desc = child->mm->context.ldt + (seg & ~7);
base = (desc[0] >> 16) | ((desc[1] & 0xff) << 16) | (desc[1] & 0xff000000);
seg &= ~7UL;

/* 16-bit code segment? */
if (!((desc[1] >> 22) & 1))
addr &= 0xffff;
addr += base;
down(&child->mm->context.sem);
if (unlikely((seg >> 3) >= child->mm->context.size))
addr = -1L; /* bogus selector, access would fault */
else {
desc = child->mm->context.ldt + seg;
base = ((desc[0] >> 16) |
((desc[1] & 0xff) << 16) |
(desc[1] & 0xff000000));

/* 16-bit code segment? */
if (!((desc[1] >> 22) & 1))
addr &= 0xffff;
addr += base;
}
up(&child->mm->context.sem);
}
return addr;
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23 changes: 16 additions & 7 deletions arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c
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Expand Up @@ -102,16 +102,25 @@ unsigned long convert_rip_to_linear(struct task_struct *child, struct pt_regs *r
u32 *desc;
unsigned long base;

down(&child->mm->context.sem);
desc = child->mm->context.ldt + (seg & ~7);
base = (desc[0] >> 16) | ((desc[1] & 0xff) << 16) | (desc[1] & 0xff000000);
seg &= ~7UL;

/* 16-bit code segment? */
if (!((desc[1] >> 22) & 1))
addr &= 0xffff;
addr += base;
down(&child->mm->context.sem);
if (unlikely((seg >> 3) >= child->mm->context.size))
addr = -1L; /* bogus selector, access would fault */
else {
desc = child->mm->context.ldt + seg;
base = ((desc[0] >> 16) |
((desc[1] & 0xff) << 16) |
(desc[1] & 0xff000000));

/* 16-bit code segment? */
if (!((desc[1] >> 22) & 1))
addr &= 0xffff;
addr += base;
}
up(&child->mm->context.sem);
}

return addr;
}

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