drm/i915: fix ioremap of a user address for non-root (CVE-2008-3831)
authorMatthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de>
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:18:05 +0000 (07:18 +1000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:13:28 +0000 (14:13 -0700)
commitb42c416b24706bd94ab7bea1569a89368adbfe7d
tree2fb59e6dda2c1420964445ef235b83d375fb06f8
parent40e24cff25b9c5b12b7f2c8aefecb72bc9c6fd26
drm/i915: fix ioremap of a user address for non-root (CVE-2008-3831)

commit 4b40893918203ee1a1f6a114316c2a19c072e9bd upstream

Olaf Kirch noticed that the i915_set_status_page() function of the i915
kernel driver calls ioremap with an address offset that is supplied by
userspace via ioctl. The function zeroes the mapped memory via memset
and tells the hardware about the address. Turns out that access to that
ioctl is not restricted to root so users could probably exploit that to
do nasty things. We haven't tried to write actual exploit code though.

It only affects the Intel G33 series and newer.

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/char/drm/i915_dma.c