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    mm: make fixup_user_fault() check the vma access rights too · 1b17844b
    Linus Torvalds authored
    
    
    fixup_user_fault() is used by the futex code when the direct user access
    fails, and the futex code wants it to either map in the page in a usable
    form or return an error.  It relied on handle_mm_fault() to map the
    page, and correctly checked the error return from that, but while that
    does map the page, it doesn't actually guarantee that the page will be
    mapped with sufficient permissions to be then accessed.
    
    So do the appropriate tests of the vma access rights by hand.
    
    [ Side note: arguably handle_mm_fault() could just do that itself, but
      we have traditionally done it in the caller, because some callers -
      notably get_user_pages() - have been able to access pages even when
      they are mapped with PROT_NONE.  Maybe we should re-visit that design
      decision, but in the meantime this is the minimal patch. ]
    
    Found by Dave Jones running his trinity tool.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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