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Memory backed DMA mappings are accounted against a user's locked memory limit, including multiple mappings of the same memory. This accounting bounds the number of such mappings that a user can create. However, DMA mappings that are not backed by memory, such as DMA mappings of device MMIO via mmaps, do not make use of page pinning and therefore do not count against the user's locked memory limit. These mappings still consume memory, but the memory is not well associated to the process for the purpose of oom killing a task. To add bounding on this use case, we introduce a limit to the total number of concurrent DMA mappings that a user is allowed to create. This limit is exposed as a tunable module option where the default value of 64K is expected to be well in excess of any reasonable use case (a large virtual machine configuration would typically only make use of tens of concurrent mappings). This fixes CVE-2019-3882. Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com> Tested-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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.
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.