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Re: debian's openvz & CVE-2010-0307



Hello Dann!  Your patch seems ok.

Thanks,
Vitaliy Gusev

On Tuesday 09 February 2010 10:28:25 pm dann frazier wrote:
> hey Vitaliy/Ola,
>  The fixes for CVE-2010-0307 remove the TIF_ABI_PENDING bit from
> arch-specific code. Since this #define no longer exists, our openvz
> patch needs to be updated to not reference it.
> 
> It looks as though openvz only references to clear all arch-specific
> flags, so I prepared the following fix. Please let me know if you see
> any problem with it.
> 
> This applies after the following list of commits:
>  - 221af7f87 ("Split 'flush_old_exec' into two functions")
>  - 05d43ed8a ("x86: get rid of the insane TIF_ABI_PENDING bit")
>  - 7ab02af42 ("Fix 'flush_old_exec()/setup_new_exec()' split")
>  - 94f28da84 ("powerpc: TIF_ABI_PENDING bit removal")
> 
> diff -urpN a/kernel/cpt/cpt_process.c b/kernel/cpt/cpt_process.c
> --- a/kernel/cpt/cpt_process.c	2010-02-09 12:02:40.000000000 -0700
> +++ b/kernel/cpt/cpt_process.c	2010-02-09 12:13:10.000000000 -0700
> @@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ static int dump_one_process(cpt_object_t
>  	v->cpt_64bit = 0;
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
>  	/* Clear x86_64 specific flags */
> -	v->cpt_thrflags &= ~(_TIF_FORK|_TIF_ABI_PENDING|_TIF_IA32);
> +	v->cpt_thrflags &= ~(_TIF_FORK|_TIF_IA32);
>  	if (!(task_thread_info(tsk)->flags & _TIF_IA32)) {
>  		ctx->tasks64++;
>  		v->cpt_64bit = 1;
> 


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