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Commit f6b8d477 authored by Andi Kleen's avatar Andi Kleen Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] x86_64: Fix canonical checking for segment registers in ptrace



Allowed user programs to set a non canonical segment base, which would cause
oopses in the kernel later.

Credit-to: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@dsv.su.se>

 For identifying and reporting this bug.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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