[PATCH] uml: more carefully test whether we are in a system call

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 <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/arch/um/sys-i386/ptrace.c b/arch/um/sys-i386/ptrace.c
index e839ce6..8032a10 100644
--- a/arch/um/sys-i386/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/um/sys-i386/ptrace.c
@@ -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));