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authorGraff Yang <graff.yang@gmail.com>2009-08-18 14:11:17 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-08-18 16:31:13 -0700
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nommu: check fd read permission in validate_mmap_request()
According to the POSIX (1003.1-2008), the file descriptor shall have been opened with read permission, regardless of the protection options specified to mmap(). The ltp test cases mmap06/07 need this. Signed-off-by: Graff Yang <graff.yang@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/nommu.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 28754c40be98..4bde489ec431 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -919,6 +919,10 @@ static int validate_mmap_request(struct file *file,
if (!file->f_op->read)
capabilities &= ~BDI_CAP_MAP_COPY;
+ /* The file shall have been opened with read permission. */
+ if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_READ))
+ return -EACCES;
+
if (flags & MAP_SHARED) {
/* do checks for writing, appending and locking */
if ((prot & PROT_WRITE) &&