3.11.10.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> commit c168870704bcde6bb63d05f7882b620dd3985a46 upstream. Our compat PTRACE_POKEUSR implementation simply passes the user data to regset_copy_from_user after some simple range checking. Unfortunately, the data in question has already been copied to the kernel stack by this point, so the subsequent access_ok check fails and the ptrace request returns -EFAULT. This causes problems tracing fork() with older versions of strace. This patch briefly changes the fs to KERNEL_DS, so that the access_ok check passes even with a kernel address. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c index c484d5625ffb..9fa78cd0f092 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -823,6 +823,7 @@ static int compat_ptrace_write_user(struct task_struct *tsk, compat_ulong_t off, compat_ulong_t val) { int ret; + mm_segment_t old_fs = get_fs(); if (off & 3 || off >= COMPAT_USER_SZ) return -EIO; @@ -830,10 +831,13 @@ static int compat_ptrace_write_user(struct task_struct *tsk, compat_ulong_t off, if (off >= sizeof(compat_elf_gregset_t)) return 0; + set_fs(KERNEL_DS); ret = copy_regset_from_user(tsk, &user_aarch32_view, REGSET_COMPAT_GPR, off, sizeof(compat_ulong_t), &val); + set_fs(old_fs); + return ret; } -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html