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Commit: ab5a91a8364c3d6fc617abc47cc81d162c01d90a
Parent: d313f948309ab22797316e789a7ff8fa358176b6
Author: Eric Paris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AuthorDate: Mon Nov 26 18:47:46 2007 -0500
Committer: James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CommitDate: Thu Dec 6 00:24:30 2007 +1100
Security: allow capable check to permit mmap or low vm space
On a kernel with CONFIG_SECURITY but without an LSM which implements
security_file_mmap it is impossible for an application to mmap addresses
lower than mmap_min_addr. Based on a suggestion from a developer in the
openwall community this patch adds a check for CAP_SYS_RAWIO. It is
assumed that any process with this capability can harm the system a lot
more easily than writing some stuff on the zero page and then trying to
get the kernel to trip over itself. It also means that programs like X
on i686 which use vm86 emulation can work even with mmap_min_addr set.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
security/dummy.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/dummy.c b/security/dummy.c
index 6d895ad..3ccfbbe 100644
--- a/security/dummy.c
+++ b/security/dummy.c
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ static int dummy_file_mmap (struct file *file, unsigned
long reqprot,
unsigned long addr,
unsigned long addr_only)
{
- if (addr < mmap_min_addr)
+ if ((addr < mmap_min_addr) && !capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
return -EACCES;
return 0;
}
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