[PATCH] NOMMU: Check that access_process_vm() has a valid target

Check that access_process_vm() is accessing a valid mapping in the target
process.

This limits ptrace() accesses and accesses through /proc/<pid>/maps to only
those regions actually mapped by a program.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 54 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 9a111f7..8aad033 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -241,60 +241,6 @@ int ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *child, unsigned int data)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-/*
- * Access another process' address space.
- * Source/target buffer must be kernel space, 
- * Do not walk the page table directly, use get_user_pages
- */
-
-int access_process_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len, int write)
-{
-	struct mm_struct *mm;
-	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
-	struct page *page;
-	void *old_buf = buf;
-
-	mm = get_task_mm(tsk);
-	if (!mm)
-		return 0;
-
-	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-	/* ignore errors, just check how much was sucessfully transfered */
-	while (len) {
-		int bytes, ret, offset;
-		void *maddr;
-
-		ret = get_user_pages(tsk, mm, addr, 1,
-				write, 1, &page, &vma);
-		if (ret <= 0)
-			break;
-
-		bytes = len;
-		offset = addr & (PAGE_SIZE-1);
-		if (bytes > PAGE_SIZE-offset)
-			bytes = PAGE_SIZE-offset;
-
-		maddr = kmap(page);
-		if (write) {
-			copy_to_user_page(vma, page, addr,
-					  maddr + offset, buf, bytes);
-			set_page_dirty_lock(page);
-		} else {
-			copy_from_user_page(vma, page, addr,
-					    buf, maddr + offset, bytes);
-		}
-		kunmap(page);
-		page_cache_release(page);
-		len -= bytes;
-		buf += bytes;
-		addr += bytes;
-	}
-	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-	mmput(mm);
-	
-	return buf - old_buf;
-}
-
 int ptrace_readdata(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long src, char __user *dst, int len)
 {
 	int copied = 0;