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    IB/security: Restrict use of the write() interface · e6bd18f5
    Jason Gunthorpe 提交于
    The drivers/infiniband stack uses write() as a replacement for
    bi-directional ioctl().  This is not safe. There are ways to
    trigger write calls that result in the return structure that
    is normally written to user space being shunted off to user
    specified kernel memory instead.
    
    For the immediate repair, detect and deny suspicious accesses to
    the write API.
    
    For long term, update the user space libraries and the kernel API
    to something that doesn't present the same security vulnerabilities
    (likely a structured ioctl() interface).
    
    The impacted uAPI interfaces are generally only available if
    hardware from drivers/infiniband is installed in the system.
    Reported-by: NJann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
    Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: NJason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
    [ Expanded check to all known write() entry points ]
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: NDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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