From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit ab676b7d6fbf4b294bf198fb27ade5b0e865c7ce upstream. As pointed by recent post[1] on exploiting DRAM physical imperfection, /proc/PID/pagemap exposes sensitive information which can be used to do attacks. This disallows anybody without CAP_SYS_ADMIN to read the pagemap. [1] http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/03/exploiting-dram-rowhammer-bug-to-gain.html [ Eventually we might want to do anything more finegrained, but for now this is the simple model. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Seaborn <mseaborn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c index 7724fbdf443f..1db8ce0086ed 100644 --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c @@ -1230,6 +1230,9 @@ out: static int pagemap_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { + /* do not disclose physical addresses: attack vector */ + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM; pr_warn_once("Bits 55-60 of /proc/PID/pagemap entries are about " "to stop being page-shift some time soon. See the " "linux/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt for details.\n"); -- 2.3.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html