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VM/Security: add security hook to do_brk
authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:06:55 +0000 (11:06 -0500)
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Wed, 5 Dec 2007 13:25:30 +0000 (00:25 +1100)
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>
mm/mmap.c

index f4cfc6ac08dbbc2e4bb0e937ee256d65ea1973fa..15678aa6ec73a4389d1c523fe542144cd3050836 100644 (file)
--- 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);