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| author | Eric Paris | 2007-12-04 17:06:55 +0100 |
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| committer | James Morris | 2007-12-05 14:25:30 +0100 |
| commit | 5a211a5deabcafdc764817d5b4510c767d317ddc (patch) | |
| tree | d330ce692f43c1b02c84ff81284e6191d567e02f /mm/mmap.c | |
| parent | Security: round mmap hint address above mmap_min_addr (diff) | |
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VM/Security: add security hook to do_brk
Given a specifically crafted binary do_brk() can be used to get low
pages available in userspace virtually memory and can thus be used to
circumvent the mmap_min_addr low memory protection. Add security checks
in do_brk().
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mmap.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mmap.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index f4cfc6ac08db..15678aa6ec73 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -1941,6 +1941,10 @@ unsigned long do_brk(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len) if (is_hugepage_only_range(mm, addr, len)) return -EINVAL; + error = security_file_mmap(0, 0, 0, 0, addr, 1); + if (error) + return error; + flags = VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS | VM_ACCOUNT | mm->def_flags; error = arch_mmap_check(addr, len, flags); |