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)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sat, 9 May 2015 22:16:30 +0000 (23:16 +0100)
commit1ffc3cd9a36b504c20ce98fe5eeb5463f389e1ac
treec2e6f5095edfea84adbf431ea64abedd9527f90d
parentfd78d926566a189d7c12c1e1bf79851b7ff7a669
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>
[mancha security: Backported to 3.10]
Signed-off-by: mancha security <mancha1@zoho.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
fs/proc/task_mmu.c