Re: [PATCH v5] mm/gup: disallow GUP writing to file-backed mappings by default

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On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 02:25:53PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 11:35:32AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > 
> > It has been years now, I think we need to admit a fix is still years
> > away. Blocking the security problem may even motivate more people to
> > work on a fix.
> 
> Do we think we can still trigger a kernel crash, or maybe even some
> more exciting like an arbitrary buffer overrun, via the
> process_vm_writev(2) system call into a file-backed mmap'ed region?

Jens? You blocked it from io_uring, did you have a specific attack in
mind?

Jason



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