[IA64] forbid ptrace changes psr.ri to 3
authorShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:43:50 +0000 (13:43 -0700)
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:43:50 +0000 (13:43 -0700)
The "ri" field in the processor status register only has defined
values of 0, 1, 2.  Do not let ptrace set this to 3.  As with
other reserved fields in registers we silently discard the value.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c

index 00f8032..122444a 100644 (file)
@@ -951,10 +951,14 @@ access_uarea (struct task_struct *child, unsigned long addr,
                        return 0;
 
                      case PT_CR_IPSR:
-                       if (write_access)
-                               pt->cr_ipsr = ((*data & IPSR_MASK)
+                       if (write_access) {
+                               unsigned long tmp = *data;
+                               /* psr.ri==3 is a reserved value: SDM 2:25 */
+                               if ((tmp & IA64_PSR_RI) == IA64_PSR_RI)
+                                       tmp &= ~IA64_PSR_RI;
+                               pt->cr_ipsr = ((tmp & IPSR_MASK)
                                               | (pt->cr_ipsr & ~IPSR_MASK));
-                       else
+                       else
                                *data = (pt->cr_ipsr & IPSR_MASK);
                        return 0;