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VM/Security: add security hook to do_brk
authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Wed, 5 Dec 2007 07:45:31 +0000 (23:45 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 5 Dec 2007 17:21:21 +0000 (09:21 -0800)
commitecaf18c15aac8bb9bed7b7aa0e382fe252e275d5
treecefce88c3d253992f939c2f8a1b66b8932272cbb
parent294a80a8ed004b383ab214837e1c05ca4098a717
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>
mm/mmap.c