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author | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2007-12-04 11:06:55 -0500 |
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committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2007-12-05 08:25:30 -0500 |
commit | 5a211a5deabcafdc764817d5b4510c767d317ddc (patch) | |
tree | d330ce692f43c1b02c84ff81284e6191d567e02f | |
parent | 7cd94146cd504016315608e297219f9fb7b1413b (diff) |
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>
-rw-r--r-- | mm/mmap.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -1941,6 +1941,10 @@ unsigned long do_brk(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len) | |||
1941 | if (is_hugepage_only_range(mm, addr, len)) | 1941 | if (is_hugepage_only_range(mm, addr, len)) |
1942 | return -EINVAL; | 1942 | return -EINVAL; |
1943 | 1943 | ||
1944 | error = security_file_mmap(0, 0, 0, 0, addr, 1); | ||
1945 | if (error) | ||
1946 | return error; | ||
1947 | |||
1944 | flags = VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS | VM_ACCOUNT | mm->def_flags; | 1948 | flags = VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS | VM_ACCOUNT | mm->def_flags; |
1945 | 1949 | ||
1946 | error = arch_mmap_check(addr, len, flags); | 1950 | error = arch_mmap_check(addr, len, flags); |