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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 10:20:55 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, 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@...ts.openwall.com, Kees Cook
<keescook@...omium.org>, Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Prevent mapping slab pages to userspace
On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 09:38:27 -0800 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.
It wouldn't surprise me if someone somewhere is doing this. Rather
than mysteriously breaking their code, how about we emit a warning and
still permit it to proceed, for a while?
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