parisc: Fix kernel panic due invalid values in IAOQ0 or IAOQ1
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 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 calls in the native and compat ptrace paths. Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/481768Reported-by: Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Tested-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
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