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Revision ce56a86e2ade45d052b3228cdfebe913a1ae7381 authored by Craig Bergstrom on 19 October 2017, 19:28:56 UTC, committed by Ingo Molnar on 20 October 2017, 07:48:00 UTC
Currently, it is possible to mmap() any offset from /dev/mem.  If a
program mmaps() /dev/mem offsets outside of the addressable limits
of a system, the page table can be corrupted by setting reserved bits.

For example if you mmap() offset 0x0001000000000000 of /dev/mem on an
x86_64 system with a 48-bit bus, the page fault handler will be called
with error_code set to RSVD.  The kernel then crashes with a page table
corruption error.

This change prevents this page table corruption on x86 by refusing
to mmap offsets higher than the highest valid address in the system.

Signed-off-by: Craig Bergstrom <craigb@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: dsafonov@virtuozzo.com
Cc: kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Cc: mhocko@suse.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171019192856.39672-1-craigb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Tip revision: ce56a86e2ade45d052b3228cdfebe913a1ae7381 authored by Craig Bergstrom on 19 October 2017, 19:28:56 UTC
x86/mm: Limit mmap() of /dev/mem to valid physical addresses
Tip revision: ce56a86
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