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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2007-12-04 11:06:55 -0500
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2007-12-06 00:25:30 +1100
commit5a211a5deabcafdc764817d5b4510c767d317ddc (patch)
treed330ce692f43c1b02c84ff81284e6191d567e02f /REPORTING-BUGS
parent7cd94146cd504016315608e297219f9fb7b1413b (diff)
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: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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