[ARM] 3030/2: fix permission check in the obscur cmpxchg syscall

Patch from Nicolas Pitre

Quoting RMK:

|pte_write() just says that the page _may_ be writable. It doesn't say
|that the MMU is programmed to allow writes. If pte_dirty() doesn't
|return true, that means that the page is _not_ writable from userspace.
|If you write to it from kernel mode (without using put_user) you'll
|bypass the MMU read-only protection and may end up writing to a page
|owned by two separate processes.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
index 03924bc..d566d5f 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ asmlinkage int arm_syscall(int no, struct pt_regs *regs)
                if (!pmd_present(*pmd))
                        goto bad_access;
                pte = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
-               if (!pte_present(*pte) || !pte_write(*pte)) {
+               if (!pte_present(*pte) || !pte_dirty(*pte)) {
                        pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
                        goto bad_access;
                }