Matthew Wilcox
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It's never appropriate to map a page allocated by SLAB into userspace. A buggy device driver might try this, or an attacker might be able to find a way to make it happen. Christoph said: : Let's just fail the code. Currently this may work with SLUB. But SLAB : and SLOB overlay fields with mapcount. So you would have a corrupted page : struct if you mapped a slab page to user space. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190125173827.2658-1-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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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 Restructured Text 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.