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 21:21:29 +0000 (14:21 -0700)
commitf8d61d1be61999a76cb207125d3bfb1885cd40eb
treeae6e25e9534716d5cff2c397e432ac9d543b5d61
parentee3b0b543db121a5fe144d755fcb7c0429d1fa50
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/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c