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author | Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> | 2016-11-10 21:46:19 +0300 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-11-18 12:48:34 +0300 |
commit | 5c54f79ad234424b453ed34e6a7920777749e456 (patch) | |
tree | bcdb4d9f02f95ae71c8cb04d8828c3ef6e528a90 /fs/f2fs | |
parent | 2f7496c48a7b0df262ff7081e377b73845cd31c8 (diff) | |
download | linux-5c54f79ad234424b453ed34e6a7920777749e456.tar.xz |
swapfile: fix memory corruption via malformed swapfile
commit dd111be69114cc867f8e826284559bfbc1c40e37 upstream.
When root activates a swap partition whose header has the wrong
endianness, nr_badpages elements of badpages are swabbed before
nr_badpages has been checked, leading to a buffer overrun of up to 8GB.
This normally is not a security issue because it can only be exploited
by root (more specifically, a process with CAP_SYS_ADMIN or the ability
to modify a swap file/partition), and such a process can already e.g.
modify swapped-out memory of any other userspace process on the system.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477949533-2509-1-git-send-email-jann@thejh.net
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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