Re: [PATCH 09/11] security: Protection for exploiting null dereferenceusing mmap

From: James Morris
Date: Tue Jul 10 2007 - 09:10:59 EST


On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

>
> On Jul 8 2007 22:59, James Morris wrote:
> >@@ -420,8 +420,12 @@ static int dummy_file_ioctl (struct file *file, unsigned int command,
> >
> > static int dummy_file_mmap (struct file *file, unsigned long reqprot,
> > unsigned long prot,
> >- unsigned long flags)
> >+ unsigned long flags,
> >+ unsigned long addr,
> >+ unsigned long addr_only)
> > {
> >+ if (addr < mmap_min_addr)
> >+ return -EACCES;
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
>
> Not -EPERM?

No, EACCES is what's used.


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