From cebbert@redhat.com  Thu Oct 16 16:09:02 2008
From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:42:12 -0400
Subject: x86: avoid dereferencing beyond stack + THREAD_SIZE
To: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Message-ID: <20081013194212.6c49544a@redhat.com>


From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

commit 60e6258cd43f9b06884f04f0f7cefb9c40f17a32 upstream

It's possible for get_wchan() to dereference past task->stack + THREAD_SIZE
while iterating through instruction pointers if fp equals the upper boundary,
causing a kernel panic.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -740,12 +740,12 @@ unsigned long get_wchan(struct task_stru
 	if (!p || p == current || p->state==TASK_RUNNING)
 		return 0; 
 	stack = (unsigned long)task_stack_page(p);
-	if (p->thread.sp < stack || p->thread.sp > stack+THREAD_SIZE)
+	if (p->thread.sp < stack || p->thread.sp >= stack+THREAD_SIZE)
 		return 0;
 	fp = *(u64 *)(p->thread.sp);
 	do { 
 		if (fp < (unsigned long)stack ||
-		    fp > (unsigned long)stack+THREAD_SIZE)
+		    fp >= (unsigned long)stack+THREAD_SIZE)
 			return 0; 
 		ip = *(u64 *)(fp+8);
 		if (!in_sched_functions(ip))