linux-kernel - Re: Make LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR default match its help text.

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Message-Id: <1250617854.2239.1.camel@dhcp231-106.rdu.redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:50:54 -0400
From:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Subject: Re: Make LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR default match its help text.

On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 13:47 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> Commit 788084aba2ab7348257597496befcbccabdc98a3 added the LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
> option, whose help text states "For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots
> of address space a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems."
> Which implies that it's default setting was typoed.

Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>

This can wait or go now.  the tests against this are always a strict >
(not >=) and they are always rounded to PAGE_SIZE.  Thus both have the
same address protections.

-Eric

> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
> 
> --- linux-2.6.30.noarch/security/Kconfig~	2009-08-18 13:45:33.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6.30.noarch/security/Kconfig	2009-08-18 13:45:36.000000000 -0400
> @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ config SECURITY_ROOTPLUG
>  config LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
>  	int "Low address space for LSM to from user allocation"
>  	depends on SECURITY && SECURITY_SELINUX
> -	default 65535
> +	default 65536
>  	help
>  	  This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected
>  	  from userspace allocation.  Keeping a user from writing to low pages


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