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From: Andrey Wagin <avagin@gmail.com>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@parallels.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prctl: fix validation of an address
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 12:26:44 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANaxB-whN+BG76cw5x794DkCA1dGAnporHE4MrMODMENeTaUXg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1356964034.31923.12.camel@localhost>

>
> The kernel makes the decision on what is valid via security_mmap_addr().
> Assuming there are no security fears of an untrusted application
> tricking some priviledged application to set up these maps the answer is
> just calling security_mmap_addr() instead of doing if(addr <
> mmap_min_addr) return -EINVAL;
>
> I don't know if it is a good idea to allow this interface to ever go
> below mmap_min_addr, but I do know that using (or even thinking about)
> dac_mmap_min_addr is wrong and you should be looking at
> security_mmap_addr() if you look at anything...

This sounds reasonable. Thank you for the comments. I'm going to send
a second version of this patch.

>
> -Eric
>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-01  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-29 11:00 [PATCH] prctl: fix validation of an address Andrey Vagin
2012-12-30 22:03 ` Eric Paris
2012-12-31 10:14   ` Andrew Vagin
2012-12-31 14:27     ` Eric Paris
2012-12-31 15:13       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-12-31 15:20         ` Eric Paris
2012-12-31 15:38           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-12-31 21:12         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2013-01-01  8:26       ` Andrey Wagin [this message]

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