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x86-64: syscall-audit: fix 32/64 syscall hole
authorRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:03:24 +0000 (19:03 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:32:21 +0000 (17:32 -0700)
commit8776fc989b070d4a323793502365acae6851d936
tree9e1c8db0ac58b574d8d0ebce690b04b216518fc3
parent1ab4bad21786384ff68dc6576d021acd4e42d8ce
x86-64: syscall-audit: fix 32/64 syscall hole

commit ccbe495caa5e604b04d5a31d7459a6f6a76a756c upstream.

On x86-64, a 32-bit process (TIF_IA32) can switch to 64-bit mode with
ljmp, and then use the "syscall" instruction to make a 64-bit system
call.  A 64-bit process make a 32-bit system call with int $0x80.

In both these cases, audit_syscall_entry() will use the wrong system
call number table and the wrong system call argument registers.  This
could be used to circumvent a syscall audit configuration that filters
based on the syscall numbers or argument details.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c