From 8b0db9db19858b08c46a84540acfd35f6e6487b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Wilson Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:49:23 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] proc: make check_mem_permission() return an mm_struct on success This change allows us to take advantage of access_remote_vm(), which in turn eliminates a security issue with the mem_write() implementation. The previous implementation of mem_write() was insecure since the target task could exec a setuid-root binary between the permission check and the actual write. Holding a reference to the target mm_struct eliminates this vulnerability. Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- Reading git-format-patch failed