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The ashmem driver did not check that the size/offset of the vma passed to its .mmap() function was not larger than the ashmem object being mapped. This could cause mmap() to succeed, even though accessing parts of the mapping would later fail with a segmentation fault. Ensure an error is returned by the ashmem_mmap() function if the vma size is larger than the ashmem object size. This enables safer handling of the problem in userspace. Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com> Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: kernel-team@android.com Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Alistair Strachan <astrachan@google.com> Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Reviewed-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
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.