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A crypto module loading vulnerability

A crypto module loading vulnerability

Posted Feb 8, 2015 4:44 UTC (Sun) by viro (subscriber, #7872)
In reply to: A crypto module loading vulnerability by scientes
Parent article: A crypto module loading vulnerability

Yes, its ->sendmsg() wants to play with get_user_pages_fast() (or iov_iter_get_pages() these days) and that just doesn't work for kernel pages. FWIW, we probably could teach iov_iter_get_pages() to work with ITER_BVEC - pages in these guys _are_ refcounted in normal fashion, so splice() could be doable. kernel_sendmsg(), OTOH, is probably hopeless...


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