--- /dev/null
+From stable-bounces@linux.kernel.org Wed Jun 1 03:47:52 2005
+Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 12:47:30 +0200
+From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
+To: stable@kernel.org
+Subject: [PATCH] x86_64: Fix ptrace boundary check
+
+Don't allow accesses below register frame in ptrace
+
+There was a "off by one quad word" error in there.
+
+Found and fixed by John Blackwood
+
+Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
+Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
+
+ arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c | 4 ++--
+ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+Index: release-2.6.11/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c
+===================================================================
+--- release-2.6.11.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c
++++ release-2.6.11/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c
+@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ptrace(long request,
+ break;
+
+ switch (addr) {
+- case 0 ... sizeof(struct user_regs_struct):
++ case 0 ... sizeof(struct user_regs_struct) - sizeof(long):
+ tmp = getreg(child, addr);
+ break;
+ case offsetof(struct user, u_debugreg[0]):
+@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ptrace(long request,
+ break;
+
+ switch (addr) {
+- case 0 ... sizeof(struct user_regs_struct):
++ case 0 ... sizeof(struct user_regs_struct) - sizeof(long):
+ ret = putreg(child, addr, data);
+ break;
+ /* Disallows to set a breakpoint into the vsyscall */