On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 19:05 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-11-06 at 10:44 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > > > From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com>
> >
> > commit 7a7003b1da010d2b0d1dc8bf21c10f5c73b389f1 upstream.
> >
> > It's possible for a user to deliberately trigger __dump_instr with a
> > chosen kernel address.
> >
> > Let's avoid problems resulting from this by using get_user() rather than
> > __get_user(), ensuring that we don't erroneously access kernel memory.
> >
> > Where we use __dump_instr() on kernel text, we already switch to
> > KERNEL_DS, so this shouldn't adversely affect those cases.
> >
> > Fixes: 60ffc30d5652810d ("arm64: Exception handling")
>
> [...]
>
> This seems harmless, but I don't think it will fix the bug in 4.4
> unless you also cherry-pick:
>
> commit c5cea06be060f38e5400d796e61cfc8c36e52924
> Author: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com>
> Date: Mon Jun 13 11:15:14 2016 +0100
>
> arm64: fix dump_instr when PAN and UAO are in use
Oops, now I see you already have that as patch #36.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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