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Commit ecaf18c1 authored by Eric Paris's avatar Eric Paris Committed by Linus Torvalds
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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 virtual 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>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 294a80a8
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