kgdb: don't needlessly skip PAGE_USER test for Fsl booke
authorWufei <fei.wu@windriver.com>
Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:42:32 +0000 (17:42 -0400)
committerJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:41:44 +0000 (21:41 -0500)
The bypassing of this test is a leftover from 2.4 vintage
kernels, and is no longer appropriate, or even used by KGDB.
Currently KGDB uses probe_kernel_write() for all access to
memory via the KGDB core, so it can simply be deleted.

This fixes CVE-2010-1446.

CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
CC: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Wufei <fei.wu@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
arch/powerpc/mm/fsl_booke_mmu.c

index c5394728bf2e1057b407e68e8f22a6b9fd9a3621..1ce9dd51a2f69c61a717bf4bbb98952244ab17fd 100644 (file)
@@ -155,15 +155,10 @@ static void settlbcam(int index, unsigned long virt, phys_addr_t phys,
        if (cur_cpu_spec->cpu_features & MMU_FTR_BIG_PHYS)
                TLBCAM[index].MAS7 = (u64)phys >> 32;
 
-#ifndef CONFIG_KGDB /* want user access for breakpoints */
        if (flags & _PAGE_USER) {
           TLBCAM[index].MAS3 |= MAS3_UX | MAS3_UR;
           TLBCAM[index].MAS3 |= ((flags & _PAGE_RW) ? MAS3_UW : 0);
        }
-#else
-       TLBCAM[index].MAS3 |= MAS3_UX | MAS3_UR;
-       TLBCAM[index].MAS3 |= ((flags & _PAGE_RW) ? MAS3_UW : 0);
-#endif
 
        tlbcam_addrs[index].start = virt;
        tlbcam_addrs[index].limit = virt + size - 1;