4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Jann Horn <[email protected]> commit 0a1d52994d440e21def1c2174932410b4f2a98a1 upstream. security_mmap_addr() does a capability check with current_cred(), but we can reach this code from contexts like a VFS write handler where current_cred() must not be used. This can be abused on systems without SMAP to make NULL pointer dereferences exploitable again. Fixes: 8869477a49c3 ("security: protect from stack expansion into low vm addresses") Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- mm/mmap.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -2345,12 +2345,11 @@ int expand_downwards(struct vm_area_stru struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm; struct vm_area_struct *prev; unsigned long gap_addr; - int error; + int error = 0; address &= PAGE_MASK; - error = security_mmap_addr(address); - if (error) - return error; + if (address < mmap_min_addr) + return -EPERM; /* Enforce stack_guard_gap */ gap_addr = address - stack_guard_gap;
