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Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 07:44:40 +1300
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Prevent mapping slab pages to userspace
On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 6:38 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> It's never appropriate to map a page allocated by SLAB into userspace.
> A buggy device driver might try this, or an attacker might be able to
> find a way to make it happen.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
> ---
> mm/memory.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index e11ca9dd823f..ce8c90b752be 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -1451,7 +1451,7 @@ static int insert_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
> spinlock_t *ptl;
>
> retval = -EINVAL;
> - if (PageAnon(page))
> + if (PageAnon(page) || PageSlab(page))
Are there other types that should not get mapped? (Or better yet, is
there a whitelist of those that are okay to be mapped?)
Either way, this sounds good. :)
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
-Kees
> goto out;
> retval = -ENOMEM;
> flush_dcache_page(page);
> --
> 2.20.1
>
--
Kees Cook
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