[PATCH] mm: Prevent mapping slab pages to userspace

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Fri Jan 25 2019 - 12:38:48 EST


It's never appropriate to map a page allocated by SLAB into userspace.
A buggy device driver might try this, or an attacker might be able to
find a way to make it happen.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index e11ca9dd823f..ce8c90b752be 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1451,7 +1451,7 @@ static int insert_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
spinlock_t *ptl;

retval = -EINVAL;
- if (PageAnon(page))
+ if (PageAnon(page) || PageSlab(page))
goto out;
retval = -ENOMEM;
flush_dcache_page(page);
--
2.20.1