From 48f5e52e916b55fb73754833efbacc7f8081a159 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Chang S. Bae" Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:44:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] x86/ptrace: Prevent ptrace from clearing the FS/GS selector When a ptracer writes a ptracee's FS/GSBASE with a different value, the selector is also cleared. This behavior is not correct as the selector should be preserved. Update only the base value and leave the selector intact. To simplify the code further remove the conditional checking for the same value as this code is not performance critical. The only recognizable downside of this change is when the selector is already nonzero on write. The base will be reloaded according to the selector. But the case is highly unexpected in real usages. [ tglx: Massage changelog ] Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: H. Peter Anvin Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9040CFCD-74BD-4C17-9A01-B9B713CF6B10@intel.com --- arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c | 14 ++------------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c index a166c960bc9e..3108cdc00b29 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -397,22 +397,12 @@ static int putreg(struct task_struct *child, case offsetof(struct user_regs_struct,fs_base): if (value >= TASK_SIZE_MAX) return -EIO; - /* - * When changing the FS base, use do_arch_prctl_64() - * to set the index to zero and to set the base - * as requested. - */ - if (child->thread.fsbase != value) - return do_arch_prctl_64(child, ARCH_SET_FS, value); + x86_fsbase_write_task(child, value); return 0; case offsetof(struct user_regs_struct,gs_base): - /* - * Exactly the same here as the %fs handling above. - */ if (value >= TASK_SIZE_MAX) return -EIO; - if (child->thread.gsbase != value) - return do_arch_prctl_64(child, ARCH_SET_GS, value); + x86_gsbase_write_task(child, value); return 0; #endif } -- 2.45.2