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pagemap: do not leak physical addresses to non-privileged userspace
authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 9 Mar 2015 21:11:12 +0000 (23:11 +0200)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Thu, 9 Apr 2015 11:14:15 +0000 (13:14 +0200)
commit91e9d77039485b57ddf632638acc0a968a39b856
tree584e2215302b82eef5b5d2c1604eac4a248dbdb3
parent741011623e3631e4e94f7baea83998204f9884dd
pagemap: do not leak physical addresses to non-privileged userspace

commit ab676b7d6fbf4b294bf198fb27ade5b0e865c7ce upstream.

As pointed by recent post[1] on exploiting DRAM physical imperfection,
/proc/PID/pagemap exposes sensitive information which can be used to do
attacks.

This disallows anybody without CAP_SYS_ADMIN to read the pagemap.

[1] http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/03/exploiting-dram-rowhammer-bug-to-gain.html

[ Eventually we might want to do anything more finegrained, but for now
  this is the simple model.   - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mark Seaborn <mseaborn@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
fs/proc/task_mmu.c