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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>2016-09-30 10:58:56 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-10-20 09:21:41 +0200
commit0a1eb2d474edfe75466be6b4677ad84e5e8ca3f5 (patch)
tree3966a6309145b8e7982d32e4903c64654118d697 /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
parent137baabe351e0554d06c6d5c84059fe343e2791e (diff)
fs/proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in /proc/PID/stat
Reporting these fields on a non-current task is dangerous. If the task is in any state other than normal kernel code, they may contain garbage or even kernel addresses on some architectures. (x86_64 used to do this. I bet lots of architectures still do.) With CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK=y, it can OOPS, too. As far as I know, there are no use programs that make any material use of these fields, so just get rid of them. Reported-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Cc: Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a5fed4c3f4e33ed25d4bb03567e329bc5a712bcc.1475257877.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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