The patch titled Subject: pagemap: hide physical addresses from non-privileged users has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is pagemap-hide-physical-addresses-from-non-privileged-users.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/pagemap-hide-physical-addresses-from-non-privileged-users.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/pagemap-hide-physical-addresses-from-non-privileged-users.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: pagemap: hide physical addresses from non-privileged users This patch makes pagemap readable for normal users and hides physical addresses from them. For some use-cases PFN isn't required at all. See http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425935472-17949-1-git-send-email-kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: ab676b7d6fbf ("pagemap: do not leak physical addresses to non-privileged userspace") Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Williamson <mwilliamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 25 ++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/proc/task_mmu.c~pagemap-hide-physical-addresses-from-non-privileged-users fs/proc/task_mmu.c --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c~pagemap-hide-physical-addresses-from-non-privileged-users +++ a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c @@ -940,6 +940,7 @@ typedef struct { struct pagemapread { int pos, len; /* units: PM_ENTRY_BYTES, not bytes */ pagemap_entry_t *buffer; + bool show_pfn; }; #define PAGEMAP_WALK_SIZE (PMD_SIZE) @@ -1016,7 +1017,8 @@ static pagemap_entry_t pte_to_pagemap_en struct page *page = NULL; if (pte_present(pte)) { - frame = pte_pfn(pte); + if (pm->show_pfn) + frame = pte_pfn(pte); flags |= PM_PRESENT; page = vm_normal_page(vma, addr, pte); if (pte_soft_dirty(pte)) @@ -1066,8 +1068,9 @@ static int pagemap_pmd_range(pmd_t *pmdp */ if (pmd_present(pmd)) { flags |= PM_PRESENT; - frame = pmd_pfn(pmd) + - ((addr & ~PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT); + if (pm->show_pfn) + frame = pmd_pfn(pmd) + + ((addr & ~PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT); } for (; addr != end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) { @@ -1076,7 +1079,7 @@ static int pagemap_pmd_range(pmd_t *pmdp err = add_to_pagemap(addr, &pme, pm); if (err) break; - if (flags & PM_PRESENT) + if (pm->show_pfn && (flags & PM_PRESENT)) frame++; } spin_unlock(ptl); @@ -1130,8 +1133,9 @@ static int pagemap_hugetlb_range(pte_t * flags |= PM_FILE; flags |= PM_PRESENT; - frame = pte_pfn(pte) + - ((addr & ~hmask) >> PAGE_SHIFT); + if (pm->show_pfn) + frame = pte_pfn(pte) + + ((addr & ~hmask) >> PAGE_SHIFT); } for (; addr != end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) { @@ -1140,7 +1144,7 @@ static int pagemap_hugetlb_range(pte_t * err = add_to_pagemap(addr, &pme, pm); if (err) return err; - if (flags & PM_PRESENT) + if (pm->show_pfn && (flags & PM_PRESENT)) frame++; } @@ -1199,6 +1203,9 @@ static ssize_t pagemap_read(struct file if (!count) goto out_mm; + /* do not disclose physical addresses: attack vector */ + pm.show_pfn = file_ns_capable(file, &init_user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN); + pm.len = (PAGEMAP_WALK_SIZE >> PAGE_SHIFT); pm.buffer = kmalloc(pm.len * PM_ENTRY_BYTES, GFP_TEMPORARY); ret = -ENOMEM; @@ -1268,10 +1275,6 @@ static int pagemap_open(struct inode *in { struct mm_struct *mm; - /* do not disclose physical addresses: attack vector */ - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) - return -EPERM; - mm = proc_mem_open(inode, PTRACE_MODE_READ); if (IS_ERR(mm)) return PTR_ERR(mm); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are pagemap-check-permissions-and-capabilities-at-open-time.patch pagemap-switch-to-the-new-format-and-do-some-cleanup.patch pagemap-rework-hugetlb-and-thp-report.patch pagemap-hide-physical-addresses-from-non-privileged-users.patch pagemap-add-mmap-exclusive-bit-for-marking-pages-mapped-only-here.patch pagemap-add-mmap-exclusive-bit-for-marking-pages-mapped-only-here-fix.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