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    parisc: Ensure userspace privilege for ptraced processes in regset functions · 34c32fc6
    Helge Deller authored
    On parisc the privilege level of a process is stored in the lowest two bits of
    the instruction pointers (IAOQ0 and IAOQ1). On Linux we use privilege level 0
    for the kernel and privilege level 3 for user-space. So userspace should not be
    allowed to modify IAOQ0 or IAOQ1 of a ptraced process to change it's privilege
    level to e.g. 0 to try to gain kernel privileges.
    
    This patch prevents such modifications in the regset support functions by
    always setting the two lowest bits to one (which relates to privilege level 3
    for user-space) if IAOQ0 or IAOQ1 are modified via ptrace regset calls.
    
    Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/481768
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.7+
    Tested-by: default avatarRolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
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