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author | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2007-12-05 02:45:31 -0500 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-12-05 12:21:21 -0500 |
commit | ecaf18c15aac8bb9bed7b7aa0e382fe252e275d5 (patch) | |
tree | cefce88c3d253992f939c2f8a1b66b8932272cbb /mm | |
parent | 294a80a8ed004b383ab214837e1c05ca4098a717 (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 virtual 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>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/mmap.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -1934,6 +1934,10 @@ unsigned long do_brk(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len) | |||
1934 | if (is_hugepage_only_range(mm, addr, len)) | 1934 | if (is_hugepage_only_range(mm, addr, len)) |
1935 | return -EINVAL; | 1935 | return -EINVAL; |
1936 | 1936 | ||
1937 | error = security_file_mmap(0, 0, 0, 0, addr, 1); | ||
1938 | if (error) | ||
1939 | return error; | ||
1940 | |||
1937 | flags = VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS | VM_ACCOUNT | mm->def_flags; | 1941 | flags = VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS | VM_ACCOUNT | mm->def_flags; |
1938 | 1942 | ||
1939 | error = arch_mmap_check(addr, len, flags); | 1943 | error = arch_mmap_check(addr, len, flags); |