linux-kernel - Re: [patch] Staging: tidspbridge: make mmap root-only so it is not a security problem

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Date:	Sun, 1 Dec 2013 10:41:39 +0100
From:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	Ivajlo Dimitrov <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@...il.com>,
	Ивайло Димитров 
	<freemangordon@....bg>, sre@...g0.de, omar.ramirez@...itl.com,
	tony@...mide.com, felipe.contreras@...il.com, s-anna@...com,
	nm@...com, ohad@...ery.com, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, nico@...lde.de
Subject: Re: [patch] Staging: tidspbridge: make mmap root-only so it is not a security problem

On Saturday 30 November 2013 23:58:23 Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Sat 2013-11-30 14:05:53, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 09:42:37PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > mmap in tidspbridge is missing range-checks. For now, make
> > > this interface root-only, so that it does not cause
> > > security problems.
> > 
> > Please fix this properly and don't paper over the real
> > problem here.
> 
> Well, if the driver is left uncompilable, I'm pretty sure it
> will bitrot.
> 

If you want to compile tidspbridge driver, you need this patch:
https://gitorious.org/linux-n900/linux-n900/commit/b9adde42d5351467fa9d281190213bb652499577

Removing BROKEN is not enough.

> I do have the hardware, but I'm pretty sure current mailine
> does not have enough support to boot Maemo, so it is non
> trivial for me to test changes here.
> 

Use linux-n900 tree, there are patches also for tidspbridge
driver, so old maemo and new harmattan userspace can use it. But
HD videos not working yet (due to another problem, search for
OMAPFB: CMA allocation failures).

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@...il.com

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