Andrew Morton wrote:
> Well OK. But vdso-print-fatal-signals.patch is designated not-for-mainline
> anyway.
>
> I think the DoS which you identify has been available for a very long time
> on ia64, x86_64 and perhaps others.
>
For the mainline a fix could be the following...
---
Limit the rate of the kernel logging for the segfaults of user applications, to
avoid potential message floods or denial-of-service attacks.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -urpN linux-2.6.22-rc2/arch/avr32/mm/fault.c
linux-2.6.22-rc2-limit-segfaults-printk-rate/arch/avr32/mm/fault.c
--- linux-2.6.22-rc2/arch/avr32/mm/fault.c 2007-05-19 13:11:30.000000000
+0200
+++ linux-2.6.22-rc2-limit-segfaults-printk-rate/arch/avr32/mm/fault.c
2007-05-21 11:48:37.000000000 +0200
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ bad_area:
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
if (user_mode(regs)) {
- if (exception_trace)
+ if (exception_trace && printk_ratelimit())
printk("%s%s[%d]: segfault at %08lx pc %08lx "
"sp %08lx ecr %lu\n",
is_init(tsk) ? KERN_EMERG : KERN_INFO,
diff -urpN linux-2.6.22-rc2/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c
linux-2.6.22-rc2-limit-segfaults-printk-rate/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c
--- linux-2.6.22-rc2/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c 2007-05-21 11:42:07.000000000
+0200
+++ linux-2.6.22-rc2-limit-segfaults-printk-rate/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c
2007-05-21 11:45:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -489,7 +489,8 @@ bad_area_nosemaphore:
(address >> 32))
return;
- if (exception_trace && unhandled_signal(tsk, SIGSEGV)) {
+ if (exception_trace && unhandled_signal(tsk, SIGSEGV) &&
+ printk_ratelimit()) {
printk(
"%s%s[%d]: segfault at %016lx rip %016lx rsp %016lx
error %lx\n",
tsk->pid > 1 ? KERN_INFO : KERN_EMERG,
-
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