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Commit 5a211a5d authored by Eric Paris's avatar Eric Paris Committed by James Morris
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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: default avatarEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
parent 7cd94146
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