From: Sonic Zhang <sonic.adi@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:50:17 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] Check if start address is in vma region in NOMMU function get_user_pages()
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.19-rc1~955
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[PATCH] Check if start address is in vma region in NOMMU function get_user_pages()

In NOMMU arch, if run "cat /proc/self/mem", data from physical address 0
are read.  This behavior is different from MMU arch.  In IA32, message
"cat: /proc/self/mem: Input/output error" is reported.

This issue is rootcaused by not validate the start address in NOMMU
function get_user_pages().  Following patch solves this issue.

Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 00ffa974c9..2af5083118 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -129,16 +129,20 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
 	struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas)
 {
 	int i;
-	static struct vm_area_struct dummy_vma;
+	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+		vma = find_vma(mm, start);
+		if(!vma)
+			return i ? : -EFAULT;
+
 		if (pages) {
 			pages[i] = virt_to_page(start);
 			if (pages[i])
 				page_cache_get(pages[i]);
 		}
 		if (vmas)
-			vmas[i] = &dummy_vma;
+			vmas[i] = vma;
 		start += PAGE_SIZE;
 	}
 	return(i);