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| author |   Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> | 2006-04-17 22:46:32 +0100 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-04-17 18:22:18 -0700 |
| commit | 69cf0fac6052c5bd3fb3469a41d4216e926028f8 (patch) | |
| tree | f403d0731549835fbf406fa4cd0910d9aec1d953 /mm/madvise.c | |
| parent | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-69cf0fac6052c5bd3fb3469a41d4216e926028f8.tar.xz linux-dev-69cf0fac6052c5bd3fb3469a41d4216e926028f8.zip | |
[PATCH] Fix MADV_REMOVE protection checking
madvise_remove needs to respect file and mmap protections.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
[ Will the real CVE-2006-1524 stand up, please.. ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/madvise.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/madvise.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index af3d573b0141..4e196155a0c3 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -168,6 +168,9 @@ static long madvise_remove(struct vm_area_struct *vma, return -EINVAL; } + if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_SHARED|VM_WRITE)) != (VM_SHARED|VM_WRITE)) + return -EACCES; + mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping; offset = (loff_t)(start - vma->vm_start) |