Merge tag 'usercopy-v4.8-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull usercopy hardening fix from Kees Cook:
"Expand the arm64 vmalloc check to include skipping the module space
too"
* tag 'usercopy-v4.8-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
mm: usercopy: Check for module addresses
diff --git a/mm/usercopy.c b/mm/usercopy.c
index 089328f..3c8da0a 100644
--- a/mm/usercopy.c
+++ b/mm/usercopy.c
@@ -207,8 +207,11 @@
* Some architectures (arm64) return true for virt_addr_valid() on
* vmalloced addresses. Work around this by checking for vmalloc
* first.
+ *
+ * We also need to check for module addresses explicitly since we
+ * may copy static data from modules to userspace
*/
- if (is_vmalloc_addr(ptr))
+ if (is_vmalloc_or_module_addr(ptr))
return NULL;
if (!virt_addr_valid(ptr))
