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
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kasan
backing-dev.c
balloon_compaction.c
bootmem.c
cleancache.c
cma_debug.c
cma.c
cma.h
compaction.c
debug_page_ref.c
debug.c
dmapool.c
early_ioremap.c
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap.c
frame_vector.c
frontswap.c
gup.c
highmem.c
huge_memory.c
hugetlb_cgroup.c
hugetlb.c
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c
internal.h
interval_tree.c
Kconfig
Kconfig.debug
khugepaged.c
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c
ksm.c
list_lru.c
maccess.c
madvise.c
Makefile
memblock.c
memcontrol.c
memory_hotplug.c
memory-failure.c
memory.c
mempolicy.c
mempool.c
memtest.c
migrate.c
mincore.c
mlock.c
mm_init.c
mmap.c
mmu_context.c
mmu_notifier.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c
mremap.c
msync.c
nobootmem.c
nommu.c
oom_kill.c
page_alloc.c
page_counter.c
page_ext.c
page_idle.c
page_io.c
page_isolation.c
page_owner.c
page_poison.c
page_vma_mapped.c
page-writeback.c
pagewalk.c
percpu-internal.h
percpu-km.c
percpu-stats.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c
pgtable-generic.c
process_vm_access.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c
rmap.c
rodata_test.c
shmem.c
slab_common.c
slab.c
slab.h
slob.c
slub.c
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c
swap_cgroup.c
swap_slots.c
swap_state.c
swap.c
swapfile.c
truncate.c
usercopy.c
userfaultfd.c
util.c
vmacache.c
vmalloc.c
vmpressure.c
vmscan.c
vmstat.c
workingset.c
z3fold.c
zbud.c
zpool.c
zsmalloc.c
zswap.c