Craig Bergstrom
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Currently, it is possible to mmap() any offset from /dev/mem. If a program mmaps() /dev/mem offsets outside of the addressable limits of a system, the page table can be corrupted by setting reserved bits. For example if you mmap() offset 0x0001000000000000 of /dev/mem on an x86_64 system with a 48-bit bus, the page fault handler will be called with error_code set to RSVD. The kernel then crashes with a page table corruption error. This change prevents this page table corruption on x86 by refusing to mmap offsets higher than the highest valid address in the system. Signed-off-by: Craig Bergstrom <craigb@google.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Cc: dsafonov@virtuozzo.com Cc: kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Cc: mhocko@suse.com Cc: oleg@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171019192856.39672-1-craigb@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.