From: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:06:55 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: VM/Security: add security hook to do_brk
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~24114^2
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5a211a5deabcafdc764817d5b4510c767d317ddc;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

VM/Security: add security hook to do_brk

Given a specifically crafted binary do_brk() can be used to get low
pages available in userspace virtually memory and can thus be used to
circumvent the mmap_min_addr low memory protection.  Add security checks
in do_brk().

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index f4cfc6ac08db..15678aa6ec73 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1941,6 +1941,10 @@ unsigned long do_brk(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len)
 	if (is_hugepage_only_range(mm, addr, len))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	error = security_file_mmap(0, 0, 0, 0, addr, 1);
+	if (error)
+		return error;
+
 	flags = VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS | VM_ACCOUNT | mm->def_flags;
 
 	error = arch_mmap_check(addr, len, flags);