Re: CVE request - kernel: thp: prevent hugepages during args/env copying into the user stack

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

Please use CVE-2011-0999.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

----- Original Message -----
> "Transparent hugepages can only be created if rmap is fully
> functional.
> A specially crafted binary could allow the user stack to grow huge and
> backed by hugepages without this patch while is_vma_temporary_stack()
> is
> true.
>
> This also optmizes away some harmless but unnecessary setting of
> khugepaged_scan.address and it switches some BUG_ON to VM_BUG_ON."
>
> mm/huge_memory.c - introduced in 71e3aac0 (v2.6.38-rc1)
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678209
> http://git.kernel.org/linus/a7d6e4ecdb7648478ddec76d30d87d03d6e22b31
>
> Thanks, Eugene