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The 'move_paghes()' system call was introduced long long ago with the same permission checks as for sending a signal (except using CAP_SYS_NICE instead of CAP_SYS_KILL for the overriding capability). That turns out to not be a great choice - while the system call really only moves physical page allocations around (and you need other capabilities to do a lot of it), you can check the return value to map out some the virtual address choices and defeat ASLR of a binary that still shares your uid. So change the access checks to the more common 'ptrace_may_access()' model instead. This tightens the access checks for the uid, and also effectively changes the CAP_SYS_NICE check to CAP_SYS_PTRACE, but it's unlikely that anybody really _uses_ this legacy system call any more (we hav ebetter NUMA placement models these days), so I expect nobody to notice. Famous last words. Reported-by: Otto Ebeling <otto.ebeling@iki.fi> Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.