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authorJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>2009-12-11 14:43:13 (GMT)
committerJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>2009-12-11 14:43:13 (GMT)
commit84667d4849b0e0a939a76f9f62d45fa3b4d59692 (patch)
tree5765d861dc39cf52863ac569211a43355ef3fc29 /kernel
parenta5d09d68335bb8422d5e7050c9f03f99ba6cfebd (diff)
downloadlinux-84667d4849b0e0a939a76f9f62d45fa3b4d59692.tar.xz
kgdb: Read buffer overflow
Roel Kluin reported an error found with Parfait. Where we want to ensure that that kgdb_info[-1] never gets accessed. Also check to ensure any negative tid does not exceed the size of the shadow CPU array, else report critical debug context because it is an internal kgdb failure. Reported-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kgdb.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kgdb.c b/kernel/kgdb.c
index 7d70146..29357a9 100644
--- a/kernel/kgdb.c
+++ b/kernel/kgdb.c
@@ -541,12 +541,17 @@ static struct task_struct *getthread(struct pt_regs *regs, int tid)
*/
if (tid == 0 || tid == -1)
tid = -atomic_read(&kgdb_active) - 2;
- if (tid < 0) {
+ if (tid < -1 && tid > -NR_CPUS - 2) {
if (kgdb_info[-tid - 2].task)
return kgdb_info[-tid - 2].task;
else
return idle_task(-tid - 2);
}
+ if (tid <= 0) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "KGDB: Internal thread select error\n");
+ dump_stack();
+ return NULL;
+ }
/*
* find_task_by_pid_ns() does not take the tasklist lock anymore