Re: CVE request - kernel: nfsd: fix vm overcommit crash

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

Please use CVE-2010-1643 for this.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

----- "Eugene Teo" <eugeneteo () kernel sg> wrote:

> "knfsd crashes if you are using it to export shmemfs objects and run 
> strict overcommit. In this situation the current->mm based modifier to
>
> the overcommit goes through a NULL pointer.
>
> We could simply check for NULL and skip the modifier but we've caught
>
> other real bugs in the past from mm being NULL here - cases where we
> did 
> need a valid mm set up (eg the exec bug in 2005).
>
> To preserve the checks and get the logic we want shuffle the checking
>
> around and add a new helper to the vm_ security wrappers
>
> Also fix a current->mm reference in nommu that should use the passed
> mm"
>
> Upstream commit:
> nfsd: fix vm overcommit crash
> http://git.kernel.org/linus/731572d39fcd3498702eda4600db4c43d51e0b26
>
> Reference:
> [PATCH] knfsd: add nfs-export support to tmpfs
> http://git.kernel.org/linus/91828a405ae454a9503c41a7744f6ff877a80714
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595970
>
> Backtrace (-rt kernel):
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595970#c1
>
> Thanks, Eugene
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