From 485d527686850d68a0e9006dd9904f19f122485e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 14:14:58 -0700 Subject: sys_personality: change sys_personality() to accept "unsigned int" instead of u_long task_struct->pesonality is "unsigned int", but sys_personality() paths use "unsigned long pesonality". This means that every assignment or comparison is not right. In particular, if this argument does not fit into "unsigned int" __set_personality() changes the caller's personality and then sys_personality() returns -EINVAL. Turn this argument into "unsigned int" and avoid overflows. Obviously, this is the user-visible change, we just ignore the upper bits. But this can't break the sane application. There is another thing which can confuse the poorly written applications. User-space thinks that this syscall returns int, not long. This means that the returned value can be negative and look like the error code. But note that libc won't be confused and thus errno won't be set, and with this patch the user-space can never get -1 unless sys_personality() really fails. And, most importantly, the negative RET != -1 is only possible if that app previously called personality(RET). Pointed-out-by: Wenming Zhang Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/syscalls.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/syscalls.h') diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h index a1a86a53bc7..7f614ce274a 100644 --- a/include/linux/syscalls.h +++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_capget(cap_user_header_t header, cap_user_data_t dataptr); asmlinkage long sys_capset(cap_user_header_t header, const cap_user_data_t data); -asmlinkage long sys_personality(u_long personality); +asmlinkage long sys_personality(unsigned int personality); asmlinkage long sys_sigpending(old_sigset_t __user *set); asmlinkage long sys_sigprocmask(int how, old_sigset_t __user *set, -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2