[PATCH] Fix MADV_REMOVE protection checking madvise_remove needs to respect file and mmap protections. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> [ Will the real CVE-2006-1524 stand up, please.. ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index af3d573..4e19615 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -168,6 +168,9 @@ return -EINVAL; } + if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_SHARED|VM_WRITE)) != (VM_SHARED|VM_WRITE)) + return -EACCES; + mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping; offset = (loff_t)(start - vma->vm_start)