From: Bodo Stroesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 
For security reasons, UML in is_syscall() needs to have access to code
in vsyscall-page. The current implementation grants this access by
explicitly allowing access to vsyscall in access_ok_skas(). With this
change, copy_from_user() may be used to read the code.
Ptrace access to vsyscall-page for debugging already was implemented
in get_user_pages() by mainline.
In i386, copy_from_user can't access vsyscall-page, but returns EFAULT.
 
To make UML behave as i386 does, I changed is_syscall to use
access_process_vm(current) to read the code from vsyscall-page.
This doesn't hurt security, but simplifies the code and prepares
implementation of stub-vmas.

Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Index: linux-2.6.15/arch/um/sys-i386/ptrace.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.15.orig/arch/um/sys-i386/ptrace.c 2005-08-28 19:41:01.000000000 
-0400
+++ linux-2.6.15/arch/um/sys-i386/ptrace.c      2006-03-23 12:17:52.000000000 
-0500
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include <linux/config.h>
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include "linux/sched.h"
+#include "linux/mm.h"
 #include "asm/elf.h"
 #include "asm/ptrace.h"
 #include "asm/uaccess.h"
@@ -26,9 +27,17 @@ int is_syscall(unsigned long addr)
 
        n = copy_from_user(&instr, (void __user *) addr, sizeof(instr));
        if(n){
-               printk("is_syscall : failed to read instruction from 0x%lx\n",
-                      addr);
-               return(0);
+               /* access_process_vm() grants access to vsyscall and stub,
+                * while copy_from_user doesn't. Maybe access_process_vm is
+                * slow, but that doesn't matter, since it will be called only
+                * in case of singlestepping, if copy_from_user failed.
+                */
+               n = access_process_vm(current, addr, &instr, sizeof(instr), 0);
+               if(n != sizeof(instr)) {
+                       printk("is_syscall : failed to read instruction from "
+                              "0x%lx\n", addr);
+                       return(1);
+               }
        }
        /* int 0x80 or sysenter */
        return((instr == 0x80cd) || (instr == 0x340f));
Index: linux-2.6.15/arch/um/sys-x86_64/ptrace.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.15.orig/arch/um/sys-x86_64/ptrace.c       2006-03-23 
12:50:15.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.15/arch/um/sys-x86_64/ptrace.c    2006-03-23 12:50:23.000000000 
-0500
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include <asm/ptrace.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/elf.h>
 
@@ -136,9 +137,28 @@ void arch_switch(void)
 */
 }
 
+/* XXX Mostly copied from sys-i386 */
 int is_syscall(unsigned long addr)
 {
-       panic("is_syscall");
+       unsigned short instr;
+       int n;
+
+       n = copy_from_user(&instr, (void __user *) addr, sizeof(instr));
+       if(n){
+               /* access_process_vm() grants access to vsyscall and stub,
+                * while copy_from_user doesn't. Maybe access_process_vm is
+                * slow, but that doesn't matter, since it will be called only
+                * in case of singlestepping, if copy_from_user failed.
+                */
+               n = access_process_vm(current, addr, &instr, sizeof(instr), 0);
+               if(n != sizeof(instr)) {
+                       printk("is_syscall : failed to read instruction from "
+                              "0x%lx\n", addr);
+                       return(1);
+               }
+       }
+       /* sysenter */
+       return(instr == 0x050f);
 }
 
 int dump_fpu(struct pt_regs *regs, elf_fpregset_t *fpu )



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