i386: allow debuggers to access the vsyscall page with compat vDSO
authorJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:10:21 +0000 (17:10 +0200)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:37:09 +0000 (18:37 -0700)
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c

index ff4ee6f3326b300a5504370b8720b4263d311f6e..6deb159d08e0cf761fe402ed5ab355bcfc9e3d4b 100644 (file)
@@ -336,7 +336,9 @@ struct vm_area_struct *get_gate_vma(struct task_struct *tsk)
 
 int in_gate_area(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long addr)
 {
-       return 0;
+       const struct vm_area_struct *vma = get_gate_vma(task);
+
+       return vma && addr >= vma->vm_start && addr < vma->vm_end;
 }
 
 int in_gate_area_no_task(unsigned long addr)