Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:58:58 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] security: do not check mmap_min_addr on nommu systems |
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On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:43:01 -0500 Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> wrote:
> nommu systems can do anything with memory they please and so they already > win. mmap_min_addr is the least of their worries. Currently the > mmap_min_addr implementation is problamatic on such systems. This patch > changes the addr_only argument to be a flags which can take the arguments > for addr_only or not_addr. LSMs then need to properly implement these two > flags.
This replaces David's nommu-ignore-the-address-parameter-in-the-file_mmap-security-check.patch, which missed 2.6.32.
What are our thoughts wrt backporting this fix in some form into 2.6.32.x and earlier?
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