The patch titled NOMMU: Check VMA protections has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is nommu-check-vma-protections.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: NOMMU: Check VMA protections From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Check the VMA protections in get_user_pages() against what's being asked. This checks to see that we don't accidentally write on a non-writable VMA or permit an I/O mapping VMA to be accessed (which may lack page structs). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- mm/nommu.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/nommu.c~nommu-check-vma-protections mm/nommu.c --- a/mm/nommu.c~nommu-check-vma-protections +++ a/mm/nommu.c @@ -122,19 +122,35 @@ unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp) } /* - * The nommu dodgy version :-) + * get a list of pages in an address range belonging to the specified process + * and indicate the VMA that covers each page + * - this is potentially dodgy as we may end incrementing the page count of a + * slab page or a secondary page from a compound page + * - don't permit access to VMAs that don't support it, such as I/O mappings */ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, int len, int write, int force, struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas) { - int i; struct vm_area_struct *vma; + unsigned long vm_flags; + int i; + + /* calculate required read or write permissions. + * - if 'force' is set, we only require the "MAY" flags. + */ + vm_flags = write ? (VM_WRITE | VM_MAYWRITE) : (VM_READ | VM_MAYREAD); + vm_flags &= force ? (VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYWRITE) : (VM_READ | VM_WRITE); for (i = 0; i < len; i++) { vma = find_vma(mm, start); - if(!vma) - return i ? : -EFAULT; + if (!vma) + goto finish_or_fault; + + /* protect what we can, including chardevs */ + if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP) || + !(vm_flags & vma->vm_flags)) + goto finish_or_fault; if (pages) { pages[i] = virt_to_page(start); @@ -145,7 +161,11 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *t vmas[i] = vma; start += PAGE_SIZE; } - return(i); + + return i; + +finish_or_fault: + return i ? : -EFAULT; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx are git-block.patch git-block-hack.patch git-gfs2.patch git-nfs.patch nfs-replace-null-dentries-that-appear-in-readdirs-list-2.patch binfmt_elf-consistently-use-loff_t.patch nommu-check-that-access_process_vm-has-a-valid-target.patch nommu-set-bdi-capabilities-for-dev-mem-and-dev-kmem.patch nommu-set-bdi-capabilities-for-dev-mem-and-dev-kmem-tidy.patch nommu-use-find_vma-rather-than-reimplementing-a-vma-search.patch check-if-start-address-is-in-vma-region-in-nommu-function-get_user_pages.patch nommu-check-vma-protections.patch nommu-permit-ptrace-to-ignore-non-prot_write-vmas-in-nommu-mode.patch nommu-implement-proc-pid-maps-for-nommu.patch nommu-order-the-per-mm_struct-vma-list.patch nommu-make-mremap-partially-work-for-nommu-kernels.patch nommu-add-docs-about-shared-memory.patch nommu-make-futexes-work-under-nommu-conditions.patch afs-add-lock-annotations-to-afs_proc_cell_servers_startstop.patch elf_fdpic_core_dump-dont-take-tasklist_lock.patch simplify-update_times-avoid-jiffies-jiffies_64-aliasing-problem-2.patch lib-rwsemc-un-inline-rwsem_down_failed_common.patch reiserfs-make-sure-all-dentries-refs-are-released-before-calling-kill_block_super-try-2.patch fs-cache-provide-a-filesystem-specific-syncable-page-bit.patch fs-cache-generic-filesystem-caching-facility.patch fs-cache-release-page-private-in-failed-readahead.patch fs-cache-release-page-private-after-failed-readahead-12.patch fs-cache-make-kafs-use-fs-cache.patch fs-cache-make-kafs-use-fs-cache-fix.patch fs-cache-make-kafs-use-fs-cache-12.patch fs-cache-make-kafs-use-fs-cache-12-fix.patch fs-cache-make-kafs-use-fs-cache-vs-streamline-generic_file_-interfaces-and-filemap.patch nfs-use-local-caching.patch nfs-use-local-caching-12.patch nfs-use-local-caching-12-fix.patch fs-cache-cachefiles-ia64-missing-copy_page-export.patch fs-cache-cachefiles-a-cache-that-backs-onto-a-mounted-filesystem.patch fs-cache-cachefiles-a-cache-that-backs-onto-a-mounted-filesystem-cachefiles-printk-format-warning.patch fs-cache-cachefiles-a-cache-that-backs-onto-a-mounted-filesystem-warning-fixes.patch fs-cache-cachefiles-a-cache-that-backs-onto-a-mounted-filesystem-cachefiles-cachefiles_write_page-shouldnt-indicate-error-twice.patch fs-cache-cachefiles-a-cache-that-backs-onto-a-mounted-filesystem-cachefiles-handle-enospc-on-create-mkdir-better.patch fs-cache-cachefiles-a-cache-that-backs-onto-a-mounted-filesystem-inode-count-maintenance.patch autofs-make-sure-all-dentries-refs-are-released-before-calling-kill_anon_super.patch vfs-destroy-the-dentries-contributed-by-a-superblock-on-unmounting.patch vfs-make-filldir_t-and-struct-kstat-deal-in-64-bit-inode-numbers.patch vfs-make-filldir_t-and-struct-kstat-deal-in-64-bit-inode-numbers-alpha-fix.patch nfs-represent-64-bit-fileids-as-64-bit-inode-numbers-on-32-bit-systems.patch ecryptfs-get_sb_dev-fix.patch introduce-kernel_execve.patch rename-the-provided-execve-functions-to-kernel_execve.patch provide-kernel_execve-on-all-architectures.patch provide-kernel_execve-on-all-architectures-fix.patch remove-the-use-of-_syscallx-macros-in-uml.patch sh64-remove-the-use-of-kernel-syscalls.patch remove-remaining-errno-and-__kernel_syscalls__-references.patch reiser4-get_sb_dev-fix.patch mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html