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Revision dd111be69114cc867f8e826284559bfbc1c40e37 authored by Jann Horn on 10 November 2016, 18:46:19 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 11 November 2016, 16:12:37 UTC 
swapfile: fix memory corruption via malformed swapfile
 
When root activates a swap partition whose header has the wrong
endianness, nr_badpages elements of badpages are swabbed before
nr_badpages has been checked, leading to a buffer overrun of up to 8GB.

This normally is not a security issue because it can only be exploited
by root (more specifically, a process with CAP_SYS_ADMIN or the ability
to modify a swap file/partition), and such a process can already e.g.
modify swapped-out memory of any other userspace process on the system.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477949533-2509-1-git-send-email-jann@thejh.net
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tip revision: dd111be69114cc867f8e826284559bfbc1c40e37 authored by Jann Horn on 10 November 2016, 18:46:19 UTC
swapfile: fix memory corruption via malformed swapfile
Tip revision: dd111be
Kconfig 
#
# For a description of the syntax of this configuration file,
# see Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt.
#
mainmenu "Linux/$ARCH $KERNELVERSION Kernel Configuration"

config SRCARCH
	string
	option env="SRCARCH"

source "arch/$SRCARCH/Kconfig"
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