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mprotect: prevent alteration of the PAT bits

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There is a defect in mprotect, which lets the user change the page cache
type bits by-passing the kernel reserve_memtype and free_memtype
wrappers.  Fix the problem by not letting mprotect change the PAT bits.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Venki Pallipadi 2008-05-14 16:05:51 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 1c12c4cf94
2 changed files with 23 additions and 4 deletions
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mm/mprotect.c
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@ -26,6 +26,13 @@
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
#ifndef pgprot_modify
static inline pgprot_t pgprot_modify(pgprot_t oldprot, pgprot_t newprot)
{
return newprot;
}
#endif
static void change_pte_range(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot,
int dirty_accountable)
@ -192,7 +199,9 @@ success:
* held in write mode.
*/
vma->vm_flags = newflags;
vma->vm_page_prot = vm_get_page_prot(newflags);
vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_modify(vma->vm_page_prot,
vm_get_page_prot(newflags));
if (vma_wants_writenotify(vma)) {
vma->vm_page_prot = vm_get_page_prot(newflags & ~VM_SHARED);
dirty_accountable = 1;