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Date:	Fri, 9 May 2008 21:48:39 +0100 (BST)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
To:	Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>,
	Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Packard, Keith" <keith.packard@...el.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [git head] X86_PAT & mprotect

On Fri, 9 May 2008, Venki Pallipadi wrote:
> 
> There is a defect in mprotect, which lets the user to change the page
> cache type bits by-passing the kernel reserve_memtype and free_memtype
> wrappers. Fix the problem by not letting mprotect change the PAT bits.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>

Thanks a lot for finalizing that, Venki: looks good to me.
I didn't originally sign-off my version of your patch, but am happy
to do so now that you've gone over it again and fixed the pte_modify
issue (though I'm not sure what the order of our signoffs should be).

I shall need to cover the MAP_PRIVATE COW issue in do_wp_page,
but I think that's better done as a separate patch: I'll attend
to it in a few days, it's not something that will upset anyone
bisecting, my mind is elsewhere at present.

Hugh
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