Re: [PATCH] security: do not check mmap_min_addr on nommu systems

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:43:01 -0500
Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> nommu systems can do anything with memory they please and so they already
> win.  mmap_min_addr is the least of their worries.  Currently the
> mmap_min_addr implementation is problamatic on such systems.  This patch
> changes the addr_only argument to be a flags which can take the arguments
> for addr_only or not_addr.  LSMs then need to properly implement these two
> flags.

This replaces David's
nommu-ignore-the-address-parameter-in-the-file_mmap-security-check.patch,
which missed 2.6.32.

What are our thoughts wrt backporting this fix in some form into
2.6.32.x and earlier?


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