mprotect: prevent alteration of the PAT bits
authorVenki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:05:51 +0000 (16:05 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 15 May 2008 02:11:15 +0000 (19:11 -0700)
There is a defect in mprotect, which lets the user change the page cache
type bits by-passing the kernel reserve_memtype and free_memtype
wrappers.  Fix the problem by not letting mprotect change the PAT bits.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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