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| author | Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> | 2016-09-08 09:57:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-09-20 13:32:49 -0700 |
| commit | df04abfd181acc276ba6762c8206891ae10ae00d (patch) | |
| tree | 03afe92ae5ef3e51035ab871e0b29742d11eb0d1 /Documentation | |
| parent | f5beeb1851ea6f8cfcf2657f26cb24c0582b4945 (diff) | |
fs/proc/kcore.c: Add bounce buffer for ktext data
We hit hardened usercopy feature check for kernel text access by reading
kcore file:
usercopy: kernel memory exposure attempt detected from ffffffff8179a01f (<kernel text>) (4065 bytes)
kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:75!
Bypassing this check for kcore by adding bounce buffer for ktext data.
Reported-by: Steve Best <sbest@redhat.com>
Fixes: f5509cc18daa ("mm: Hardened usercopy")
Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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