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Author SHA1 Message Date
Jia Zhang
059befd4e0 vfs/proc/kcore, x86/mm/kcore: Fix SMAP fault when dumping vsyscall user page
[ Upstream commit 595dd46ebfc10be041a365d0a3fa99df50b6ba73 ]

Commit:

  df04abfd18 ("fs/proc/kcore.c: Add bounce buffer for ktext data")

... introduced a bounce buffer to work around CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y.
However, accessing the vsyscall user page will cause an SMAP fault.

Replace memcpy() with copy_from_user() to fix this bug works, but adding
a common way to handle this sort of user page may be useful for future.

Currently, only vsyscall page requires KCORE_USER.

Signed-off-by: Jia Zhang <zhang.jia@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518446694-21124-2-git-send-email-zhang.jia@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-05-30 07:50:26 +02:00
David Howells
2f96b8c1d5 proc: Split kcore bits from linux/procfs.h into linux/kcore.h
Split kcore bits from linux/procfs.h into linux/kcore.h.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
cc: x86@kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-04-29 15:42:02 -04:00