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[PATCH] Fix MADV_REMOVE protection checking

madvise_remove needs to respect file and mmap protections.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
[ Will the real CVE-2006-1524 stand up, please.. ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Hugh Dickins 19 years ago
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mm/madvise.c

@@ -168,6 +168,9 @@ static long madvise_remove(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
+	if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_SHARED|VM_WRITE)) != (VM_SHARED|VM_WRITE))
+		return -EACCES;
+
 	mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
 
 	offset = (loff_t)(start - vma->vm_start)