[PATCH] prctl: Use access_ok instead of TASK_SIZE in prctl_set_mm

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

Eric pointed that better to use access_ok instead
of TASK_SIZE for testing if address is allowed for
use.

Reported-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/sys.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.git/kernel/sys.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/kernel/sys.c
+++ linux-2.6.git/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1865,7 +1865,7 @@ static int prctl_set_mm(int opt, unsigne
 	if (opt == PR_SET_MM_EXE_FILE)
 		return prctl_set_mm_exe_file(mm, (unsigned int)addr);
 
-	if (addr >= TASK_SIZE || addr < mmap_min_addr)
+	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, addr, sizeof(addr)) || addr < mmap_min_addr)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	error = -EINVAL;
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