-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: James Morris This patch addresses a flaw in LSM, where there is no mediation of readv() and writev() in for 32-bit compatible apps using a 64-bit kernel. This bug was discovered and fixed initially in the native readv/writev code [1], but was not fixed in the compat code. Thanks to Al for spotting this one. [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/154282/ Signed-off-by: James Morris Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Chris Wright --- fs/compat.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- linux-2.6.16.11.orig/fs/compat.c +++ linux-2.6.16.11/fs/compat.c @@ -1215,6 +1215,10 @@ static ssize_t compat_do_readv_writev(in if (ret < 0) goto out; + ret = security_file_permission(file, type == READ ? MAY_READ:MAY_WRITE); + if (ret) + goto out; + fnv = NULL; if (type == READ) { fn = file->f_op->read; --