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authorDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>2015-01-08 14:30:22 -0800
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2015-01-22 21:11:06 +0100
commite9d1b4f3c60997fe197bf0243cb4a41a44387a88 (patch)
treee7f3076eac567e6004a4fbed458b1ecebaa4c843 /kernel
parentc922228efeeefa32e57f875764bfa6ca8053a68a (diff)
x86, mpx: Strictly enforce empty prctl() args
Description from Michael Kerrisk. He suggested an identical patch to one I had already coded up and tested. commit fe3d197f8431 "x86, mpx: On-demand kernel allocation of bounds tables" added two new prctl() operations, PR_MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT and PR_MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT. However, no checks were included to ensure that unused arguments are zero, as is done in many existing prctl()s and as should be done for all new prctl()s. This patch adds the required checks. Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Suggested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150108223022.7F56FD13@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index a8c9f5a7dda6..ea9c88109894 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -2210,9 +2210,13 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(prctl, int, option, unsigned long, arg2, unsigned long, arg3,
up_write(&me->mm->mmap_sem);
break;
case PR_MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT:
+ if (arg2 || arg3 || arg4 || arg5)
+ return -EINVAL;
error = MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT(me);
break;
case PR_MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT:
+ if (arg2 || arg3 || arg4 || arg5)
+ return -EINVAL;
error = MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT(me);
break;
default: