From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Prevent mapping slab pages to userspace
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 11:37:10 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bm3xpsqx.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190125173827.2658-1-willy@infradead.org>
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> writes:
> It's never appropriate to map a page allocated by SLAB into userspace.
> A buggy device driver might try this, or an attacker might be able to
> find a way to make it happen.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> ---
> mm/memory.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index e11ca9dd823f..ce8c90b752be 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -1451,7 +1451,7 @@ static int insert_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
> spinlock_t *ptl;
>
> retval = -EINVAL;
> - if (PageAnon(page))
> + if (PageAnon(page) || PageSlab(page))
> goto out;
> retval = -ENOMEM;
> flush_dcache_page(page);
Thanks for turning this into an actual patch.
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-31 0:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-25 17:38 [PATCH] mm: Prevent mapping slab pages to userspace Matthew Wilcox
2019-01-25 18:44 ` Kees Cook
2019-01-25 19:30 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-01-28 18:20 ` Andrew Morton
2019-01-28 19:00 ` Kees Cook
2019-01-28 20:08 ` Christopher Lameter
2019-01-31 0:37 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2019-01-31 6:03 ` Pekka Enberg
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