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Commit 2c87e2cd authored by Andi Kleen's avatar Andi Kleen Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] x86_64: Fix access check in ptrace compat



We can't safely directly access an compat_alloc_user_space() pointer
with the siginfo copy functions. Bounce it through the stack.

Noticed by Al Viro using sparse

[ This was only added post 2.6.17, not in any released kernel ]

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 1cfcea1b
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