linux-kernel - Re: [1/2] cxl: Fix off by one error allowing subsequent mmap page to be accessed

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Message-Id: <20150708105407.D6556140788@ozlabs.org>
Date:	Wed,  8 Jul 2015 20:54:07 +1000 (AEST)
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>
Cc:	mikey <mikey@...ling.org>, Matt Ochs <mrochs@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [1/2] cxl: Fix off by one error allowing subsequent mmap page to be accessed

On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 05:45:45 UTC, Ian Munsie wrote:
> From: Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>
> 
> It was discovered that if a process mmaped their problem state area they
> were able to access one page more than expected, potentially allowing
> them to access the problem state area of an unrelated process.
> 
> This was due to a simple off by one error in the mmap fault handler
> introduced in 0712dc7e73e59d79bcead5d5520acf4e9e917e87 ("cxl: Fix issues
> when unmapping contexts"), which is fixed in this patch.
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Fixes: 0712dc7e73e5 ("cxl: Fix issues when unmapping contexts")
> Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?h=fixes&id=10a5894f2dedd8a26b3132497445b314c0d952c4

cheers
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