parisc: Ensure userspace privilege for ptraced processes in regset functions
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Helge Deller
maintainerPATCH 1/1 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.
Cc <[email protected]> # v4.7+
Signed-off-by Helge Deller <[email protected]>
arch/parisc/kernel/ptrace.c +2 -1
@@ -502,7 +510,8 @@ static void set_reg(struct pt_regs *regs, int num, unsigned long val)return ;case RI (iaoq[0 ]):case RI (iaoq[1 ]): - regs->iaoq[num -RI (iaoq[0 ])] = val; +/* set 2 lowest bits to ensure userspace privilege: */ + regs->iaoq[num -RI (iaoq[0 ])] = val |3 ;return ;case RI (sar): regs->sar = val;return ;