Re: Security fix for remapping of page 0 (was [PATCH] ChangeZERO_SIZE_PTR to point at unmapped space)

[Alan Cox]

> Ok. So what we need to do is stop this toying around with remapping of
> page 0. The following patch contains a fix and a test program that
> demonstrates the issue.

NAK - you've now broken half a dozen apps.

One way you could approach this would be to write a security module for
non SELINUX users - one that did one thing alone - decide whether the app
being run was permitted to map the low 64K perhaps by checking the
security label on the file.

Alan
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