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| author |   Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> | 2005-05-16 21:53:30 -0700 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-05-17 07:59:15 -0700 |
| commit | f6b8d4778c04148729cc0b0dcd335a4411c44276 (patch) | |
| tree | 04ebfb8aba4f0354a2840886b2d06972faf18a2d /arch/x86_64/mm | |
| parent | [PATCH] x86_64: check if ptrace RIP is canonical (diff) | |
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[PATCH] x86_64: Fix canonical checking for segment registers in ptrace
Allowed user programs to set a non canonical segment base, which would cause
oopses in the kernel later.
Credit-to: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@dsv.su.se>
For identifying and reporting this bug.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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