The patch titled uml: don't allow processes to call into stub has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is uml-dont-allow-processes-to-call-into-stub.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: uml: don't allow processes to call into stub From: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx> Kill a process that tries to branch into a stub and execute a system call. There are no security implications here - a system call in a stub is treated the same as a system call anywhere else. But if a process is trying to branch into a stub, either it is trying something nasty or it has gone haywire, so it's a good idea to get rid of it in either case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff -puN arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c~uml-dont-allow-processes-to-call-into-stub arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c --- a/arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c~uml-dont-allow-processes-to-call-into-stub +++ a/arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c @@ -146,6 +146,9 @@ static void handle_trap(int pid, struct { int err, status; + if ((UPT_IP(regs) >= STUB_START) && (UPT_IP(regs) < STUB_END)) + fatal_sigsegv(); + /* Mark this as a syscall */ UPT_SYSCALL_NR(regs) = PT_SYSCALL_NR(regs->gp); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx are git-kvm.patch git-x86.patch uml-add-asm-um-asmh.patch uml-arch-um-include-inith-needs-a-definition-of-__used.patch uml-implement-get_wchan.patch uml-implement-get_wchan-fix.patch uml-get-rid-of-asmlinkage.patch uml-get-rid-of-asmlinkage-checkpatch-fixes.patch uml-document-new-ubd-flag.patch uml-further-bugsc-tidying.patch uml-further-bugsc-tidying-checkpatch-fixes.patch uml-smp-needs-to-depend-on-broken-for-now.patch uml-console-driver-cleanups.patch uml-clonec-tidying.patch uml-borrow-consth-techniques.patch uml-delete-some-unused-headers.patch uml-allow-lflags-on-command-line.patch uml-tidy-kern_utilh.patch uml-tidy-pgtableh.patch uml-tidy-pgtableh-fix.patch uml-reconst-a-parameter.patch arch-um-remove-duplicate-includes.patch uml-host-tls-diagnostics.patch uml-move-um_virt_to_phys.patch uml-header-untangling.patch uml-style-cleanup.patch uml-currenth-cleanup.patch uml-fix-page-table-data-sizes.patch uml-add-virt_to_pte.patch uml-simplify-sigsegv-handling.patch uml-use-ptrace-directly-in-libc-code.patch uml-kill-processes-instead-of-panicing-kernel.patch uml-clean-up-task_size-usage.patch uml-cover-stubs-with-a-vma.patch uml-fix-command-line-cflags-and-ldflags-support.patch uml-style-fixes-in-arch-um-os-linux.patch uml-miscellaneous-code-cleanups.patch uml-style-fixes-in-filec.patch uml-64-bit-tlb-fixes.patch uml-customize-tlbh.patch uml-runtime-detection-of-host-vmsplit-on-i386.patch uml-eliminate-setjmp_wrapper.patch uml-install-panic-notifier-earlier.patch uml-use-barrier-instead-of-mb.patch uml-tidy-helper-code.patch uml-dont-kill-pid-0.patch uml-get-rid-of-syscall-counters.patch uml-dont-allow-processes-to-call-into-stub.patch uml-move-sig_handler_common_skas.patch uml-clean-up-sig_handler_common_skas.patch fix-__const_udelay-declaration-and-definition-mismatches.patch create-arch-kconfig.patch add-have_oprofile.patch add-have_kprobes.patch move-kconfiginstrumentation-to-arch-kconfig-and-init-kconfig.patch iget-stop-hostfs-from-using-iget-and-read_inode.patch iget-stop-hostfs-from-using-iget-and-read_inode-checkpatch-fixes.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html