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| author | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2007-12-04 23:45:31 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-12-05 09:21:21 -0800 |
| commit | ecaf18c15aac8bb9bed7b7aa0e382fe252e275d5 (patch) | |
| tree | cefce88c3d253992f939c2f8a1b66b8932272cbb /Documentation/mtrr.txt | |
| 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>
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