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BACKPORT: pagemap: do not leak physical addresses to non-privileged userspace
(cherry pick from commit ab676b7d) As pointed by recent post[1] on exploiting DRAM physical imperfection, /proc/PID/pagemap exposes sensitive information which can be used to do attacks. This disallows anybody without CAP_SYS_ADMIN to read the pagemap. [1] http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/03/exploiting-dram-rowhammer-bug-to-gain.html [ Eventually we might want to do anything more finegrained, but for now this is the simple model. - Linus ] Signed-off-by:Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by:
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Acked-by:
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Seaborn <mseaborn@chromium.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@google.com> Bug: 26038811 Change-Id: Icd68075a32ef6c9be1ae00ae9cf5a68bbe7f4e4f
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