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Lorenzo Stoakes 22af8caff7 mm/madvise: process_madvise() drop capability check if same mm 
In commit 96cfe2c0fd ("mm/madvise: replace ptrace attach requirement for
process_madvise") process_madvise() was updated to require the caller to
possess the CAP_SYS_NICE capability to perform the operation, in addition
to a check against PTRACE_MODE_READ performed by mm_access().

The mm_access() function explicitly checks to see if the address space of
the process being referenced is the current one, in which case no check is
performed.

We, however, do not do this when checking the CAP_SYS_NICE capability. This
means that we insist on the caller possessing this capability in order to
perform madvise() operations on its own address space, which seems
nonsensical.

Simply add a check to allow for an invocation of this function with pidfd
set to the current process without elevation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240913140628.77047-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Fixes: 96cfe2c0fd ("mm/madvise: replace ptrace attach requirement for process_madvise")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-09-17 00:58:05 -07:00
arch Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging 2024-09-01 09:18:48 +12:00
block block: fix detection of unsupported WRITE SAME in blkdev_issue_write_zeroes 2024-08-28 08:49:25 -06:00
certs kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory 2024-05-10 04:34:52 +09:00
crypto crypto: testmgr - generate power-of-2 lengths more often 2024-07-13 11:50:28 +12:00
Documentation mm/memcontrol: respect zswap.writeback setting from parent cg too 2024-09-01 17:59:02 -07:00
drivers power sequencing fixes for v6.11-rc6 2024-09-01 09:07:44 +12:00
fs ocfs2: cancel dqi_sync_work before freeing oinfo 2024-09-09 15:15:54 -07:00
include four cifs.ko client fixes 2024-09-01 15:49:26 +12:00
init Rust fixes for v6.11 2024-08-16 11:24:06 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/kbuf: return correct iovec count from classic buffer peek 2024-08-30 10:45:54 -06:00
ipc sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers 2024-07-24 20:59:29 +02:00
kernel resource: fix region_intersects() vs add_memory_driver_managed() 2024-09-17 00:58:04 -07:00
lib alloc_tag: fix allocation tag reporting when CONFIG_MODULES=n 2024-09-01 17:59:03 -07:00
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mm mm/madvise: process_madvise() drop capability check if same mm 2024-09-17 00:58:05 -07:00
net Including fixes from bluetooth, wireless and netfilter. 2024-08-30 06:14:39 +12:00
rust Rust fixes for v6.11 2024-08-16 11:24:06 -07:00
samples treewide: remove unnecessary <linux/version.h> inclusion 2024-08-12 18:36:44 +09:00
scripts scripts: fix gfp-translate after ___GFP_*_BITS conversion to an enum 2024-09-01 17:59:01 -07:00
security Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging 2024-09-01 09:18:48 +12:00
sound sound fixes for 6.11-rc6 2024-08-28 06:24:22 +12:00
tools selftests: mm: fix build errors on armhf 2024-09-01 17:58:59 -07:00
usr initramfs: shorten cmd_initfs in usr/Makefile 2024-07-16 01:07:52 +09:00
virt KVM: x86: Disallow read-only memslots for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP (and TDX) 2024-08-14 12:28:24 -04:00
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README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.