Commit 34c32fc603311a72cb558e5e337555434f64c27b
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parisc: Ensure userspace privilege for ptraced processes in regset functions
On parisc the privilege level of a process is stored in the lowest two bits of the instruction pointers (IAOQ0 and IAOQ1). On Linux we use privilege level 0 for the kernel and privilege level 3 for user-space. So userspace should not be allowed to modify IAOQ0 or IAOQ1 of a ptraced process to change it's privilege level to e.g. 0 to try to gain kernel privileges. This patch prevents such modifications in the regset support functions by always setting the two lowest bits to one (which relates to privilege level 3 for user-space) if IAOQ0 or IAOQ1 are modified via ptrace regset calls. Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/481768 Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.7+ Tested-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
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arch/parisc/kernel/ptrace.c
... | ... | @@ -504,7 +504,8 @@ |
504 | 504 | return; |
505 | 505 | case RI(iaoq[0]): |
506 | 506 | case RI(iaoq[1]): |
507 | - regs->iaoq[num - RI(iaoq[0])] = val; | |
507 | + /* set 2 lowest bits to ensure userspace privilege: */ | |
508 | + regs->iaoq[num - RI(iaoq[0])] = val | 3; | |
508 | 509 | return; |
509 | 510 | case RI(sar): regs->sar = val; |
510 | 511 | return; |