+++ /dev/null
-[PATCH] Andrea Arcangeli: malicious users of mremap() syscall can gain priviledges
-
-All diffs for ChangeSet 1.1136.92.4
-diff -Nru a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
---- a/mm/mremap.c Mon Jan 5 06:14:39 2004
-+++ b/mm/mremap.c Mon Jan 5 06:14:39 2004
-@@ -241,6 +241,13 @@
-
- if (new_len > TASK_SIZE || new_addr > TASK_SIZE - new_len)
- goto out;
-+ /*
-+ * Allow new_len == 0 only if new_addr == addr
-+ * to preserve truncation in place (that was working
-+ * safe and some app may depend on it).
-+ */
-+ if (unlikely(!new_len && new_addr != addr))
-+ goto out;
-
- /* Check if the location we're moving into overlaps the
- * old location at all, and fail if it does.