kernel_optimize_test/mm
Linus Torvalds 197e7e5213 Sanitize 'move_pages()' permission checks
The 'move_paghes()' system call was introduced long long ago with the
same permission checks as for sending a signal (except using
CAP_SYS_NICE instead of CAP_SYS_KILL for the overriding capability).

That turns out to not be a great choice - while the system call really
only moves physical page allocations around (and you need other
capabilities to do a lot of it), you can check the return value to map
out some the virtual address choices and defeat ASLR of a binary that
still shares your uid.

So change the access checks to the more common 'ptrace_may_access()'
model instead.

This tightens the access checks for the uid, and also effectively
changes the CAP_SYS_NICE check to CAP_SYS_PTRACE, but it's unlikely that
anybody really _uses_ this legacy system call any more (we hav ebetter
NUMA placement models these days), so I expect nobody to notice.

Famous last words.

Reported-by: Otto Ebeling <otto.ebeling@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-08-20 13:26:27 -07:00
..
kasan kasan: avoid -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning 2017-08-02 16:34:46 -07:00
backing-dev.c
balloon_compaction.c mm/balloon_compaction.c: don't zero ballooned pages 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
bootmem.c
cleancache.c
cma_debug.c mm/cma_debug.c: fix stack corruption due to sprintf usage 2017-08-18 15:32:02 -07:00
cma.c cma: fix calculation of aligned offset 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
cma.h
compaction.c mm, compaction: skip over holes in __reset_isolation_suitable 2017-07-06 16:24:32 -07:00
debug_page_ref.c
debug.c mm: make tlb_flush_pending global 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
dmapool.c
early_ioremap.c
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap.c mm: hugetlb: return immediately for hugetlb page in __delete_from_page_cache() 2017-07-10 16:32:30 -07:00
frame_vector.c
frontswap.c
gup.c mm, gup: ensure real head page is ref-counted when using hugepages 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
highmem.c
huge_memory.c mm, oom: fix potential data corruption when oom_reaper races with writer 2017-08-18 15:32:01 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c
hugetlb.c userfaultfd: hugetlbfs: remove superfluous page unlock in VM_SHARED case 2017-08-10 15:54:06 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c
internal.h mm, mprotect: flush TLB if potentially racing with a parallel reclaim leaving stale TLB entries 2017-08-02 16:34:46 -07:00
interval_tree.c
Kconfig mm/kasan: add support for memory hotplug 2017-07-10 16:32:33 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
khugepaged.c mm: make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE immediately active 2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c mm: kmemleak: treat vm_struct as alternative reference to vmalloc'ed objects 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
ksm.c mm: fix KSM data corruption 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
list_lru.c mm/list_lru.c: fix list_lru_count_node() to be race free 2017-07-10 16:32:33 -07:00
maccess.c
madvise.c mm, mprotect: flush TLB if potentially racing with a parallel reclaim leaving stale TLB entries 2017-08-02 16:34:46 -07:00
Makefile percpu: expose statistics about percpu memory via debugfs 2017-06-20 15:31:38 -04:00
memblock.c mm: discard memblock data later 2017-08-18 15:32:01 -07:00
memcontrol.c mm: memcontrol: fix NULL pointer crash in test_clear_page_writeback() 2017-08-18 15:32:01 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm/memory-hotplug: switch locking to a percpu rwsem 2017-07-10 16:32:33 -07:00
memory-failure.c mm, hugetlb, soft_offline: use new_page_nodemask for soft offline migration 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
memory.c mm, oom: fix potential data corruption when oom_reaper races with writer 2017-08-18 15:32:01 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm/mempolicy: fix use after free when calling get_mempolicy 2017-08-18 15:32:02 -07:00
mempool.c sched/wait: Rename wait_queue_t => wait_queue_entry_t 2017-06-20 12:18:27 +02:00
memtest.c
migrate.c Sanitize 'move_pages()' permission checks 2017-08-20 13:26:27 -07:00
mincore.c
mlock.c
mm_init.c
mmap.c mm: fix overflow check in expand_upwards() 2017-07-14 15:05:12 -07:00
mmu_context.c
mmu_notifier.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c mm: migrate: prevent racy access to tlb_flush_pending 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
mremap.c userfaultfd: non-cooperative: notify about unmap of destination during mremap 2017-08-02 16:34:46 -07:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c mm: discard memblock data later 2017-08-18 15:32:01 -07:00
nommu.c
oom_kill.c mm/oom_kill.c: add tracepoints for oom reaper-related events 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm: discard memblock data later 2017-08-18 15:32:01 -07:00
page_counter.c
page_ext.c
page_idle.c
page_io.c mm/page_io.c: fix oops during block io poll in swapin path 2017-08-02 17:16:11 -07:00
page_isolation.c mm: unify new_node_page and alloc_migrate_target 2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
page_owner.c mm: avoid taking zone lock in pagetypeinfo_showmixed() 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
page_poison.c
page_vma_mapped.c mm/hugetlb: add size parameter to huge_pte_offset() 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
page-writeback.c mm: memcontrol: fix NULL pointer crash in test_clear_page_writeback() 2017-08-18 15:32:01 -07:00
pagewalk.c mm/hugetlb: add size parameter to huge_pte_offset() 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
percpu-internal.h percpu: fix early calls for spinlock in pcpu_stats 2017-06-21 13:53:52 -04:00
percpu-km.c percpu: fix static checker warnings in pcpu_destroy_chunk 2017-06-29 11:23:38 -04:00
percpu-stats.c percpu: expose statistics about percpu memory via debugfs 2017-06-20 15:31:38 -04:00
percpu-vm.c percpu: fix static checker warnings in pcpu_destroy_chunk 2017-06-29 11:23:38 -04:00
percpu.c percpu: resolve err may not be initialized in pcpu_alloc 2017-06-21 12:00:45 -04:00
pgtable-generic.c
process_vm_access.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c
rmap.c rmap: do not call mmu_notifier_invalidate_page() under ptl 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
rodata_test.c
shmem.c mm: fix list corruptions on shmem shrinklist 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
slab_common.c mm: allow slab_nomerge to be set at build time 2017-07-06 16:24:31 -07:00
slab.c mm: memcontrol: account slab stats per lruvec 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
slab.h mm: memcontrol: account slab stats per lruvec 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
slob.c
slub.c slub: fix per memcg cache leak on css offline 2017-08-18 15:32:01 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm, tree wide: replace __GFP_REPEAT by __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL with more useful semantic 2017-07-12 16:26:03 -07:00
sparse.c mm, memory_hotplug: do not associate hotadded memory to zones until online 2017-07-06 16:24:32 -07:00
swap_cgroup.c mm, THP, swap: delay splitting THP during swap out 2017-07-06 16:24:31 -07:00
swap_slots.c mm/swap_slots.c: don't disable preemption while taking the per-CPU cache 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
swap_state.c swap: add block io poll in swapin path 2017-07-10 16:32:30 -07:00
swap.c mm: swap: provide lru_add_drain_all_cpuslocked() 2017-07-10 16:32:33 -07:00
swapfile.c swap: add block io poll in swapin path 2017-07-10 16:32:30 -07:00
truncate.c mm/truncate.c: fix THP handling in invalidate_mapping_pages() 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
usercopy.c
userfaultfd.c
util.c mm: fix global NR_SLAB_.*CLAIMABLE counter reads 2017-08-10 15:54:06 -07:00
vmacache.c
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc.c: don't unconditonally use __GFP_HIGHMEM 2017-08-18 15:32:02 -07:00
vmpressure.c mm, vmpressure: pass-through notification support 2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
vmscan.c mm, tree wide: replace __GFP_REPEAT by __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL with more useful semantic 2017-07-12 16:26:03 -07:00
vmstat.c mm: avoid taking zone lock in pagetypeinfo_showmixed() 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
workingset.c mm: memcontrol: per-lruvec stats infrastructure 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
z3fold.c
zbud.c
zpool.c
zsmalloc.c zram: do not free pool->size_class 2017-08-02 16:34:47 -07:00
zswap.c mm/zswap.c: delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in zswap_dstmem_prepare() 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00