Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] um: Fix PTRACE_POKEUSER on x86_64

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Wed May 03 2017 - 16:54:45 EST


On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 12:41 AM, Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> wrote:
> This is broken since ever but sadly nobody noticed.
> Recent versions of GDB set DR_CONTROL unconditionally and
> UML dies due to a heap corruption. It turns out that
> the PTRACE_POKEUSER was copy&pasted from i386 and assumes
> that addresses are 4 bytes long.
>
> Fix that by using 8 as address size in the calculation.
>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: jie cao <cj3054@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/um/ptrace_64.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/um/ptrace_64.c b/arch/x86/um/ptrace_64.c
> index a5c9910d234f..09a085bde0d4 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/um/ptrace_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/um/ptrace_64.c
> @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ int poke_user(struct task_struct *child, long addr, long data)
> else if ((addr >= offsetof(struct user, u_debugreg[0])) &&
> (addr <= offsetof(struct user, u_debugreg[7]))) {
> addr -= offsetof(struct user, u_debugreg[0]);
> - addr = addr >> 2;
> + addr = addr >> 3;
> if ((addr == 4) || (addr == 5))
> return -EIO;
> child->thread.arch.debugregs[addr] = data;

Applied.

--
Thanks,
//richard