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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>2015-02-24 16:01:38 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-02-25 08:27:49 +0100
commit08571f1ae327bfb631cb7171bde5ea605df626c6 (patch)
treeb480579dd9f05b86b6b004893d1e234acd534af5 /arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
parent719d359dc7b6be3e43d6661f192ceb980b10ee26 (diff)
x86/ptrace: Remove checks for TIF_IA32 when changing CS and SS
The ability for modified CS and/or SS to be useful has nothing to do with TIF_IA32. Similarly, if there's an exploit involving changing CS or SS, it's exploitable with or without a TIF_IA32 check. So just delete the check. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/71c7ab36456855d11ae07edd4945a7dfe80f9915.1424822291.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c10
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
index e510618b2e91..1e125817cf9f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -364,18 +364,12 @@ static int set_segment_reg(struct task_struct *task,
case offsetof(struct user_regs_struct,cs):
if (unlikely(value == 0))
return -EIO;
-#ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
- if (test_tsk_thread_flag(task, TIF_IA32))
- task_pt_regs(task)->cs = value;
-#endif
+ task_pt_regs(task)->cs = value;
break;
case offsetof(struct user_regs_struct,ss):
if (unlikely(value == 0))
return -EIO;
-#ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
- if (test_tsk_thread_flag(task, TIF_IA32))
- task_pt_regs(task)->ss = value;
-#endif
+ task_pt_regs(task)->ss = value;
break;
}