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powerpc: Fix machine check problem on 32-bit kernels

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This fixes a bug found by Dave Jones that means that it is possible
for userspace to provoke a machine check on 32-bit kernels.  This
also fixes a couple of other places where I found similar problems
by inspection.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Paul Mackerras
2006-06-09 13:02:59 +10:00
parent 1def630a6a
commit 7c85d1f9d3
2 changed files with 12 additions and 1 deletions
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arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c
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@@ -182,6 +182,8 @@ static long restore_sigcontext(struct pt_regs *regs, sigset_t *set, int sig,
err |= __get_user(msr, &sc->gp_regs[PT_MSR]);
if (err)
return err;
if (v_regs && !access_ok(VERIFY_READ, v_regs, 34 * sizeof(vector128)))
return -EFAULT;
/* Copy 33 vec registers (vr0..31 and vscr) from the stack */
if (v_regs != 0 && (msr & MSR_VEC) != 0)
err |= __copy_from_user(current->thread.vr, v_regs,