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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:06:31 -0700
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov,
drepper@...hat.com, roland@...hat.com, arjan@...radead.org,
mingo@...e.hu, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, chrisw@...hat.com,
sds@...ho.nsa.gov, sgrubb@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmap
* Eric Paris (eparis@...hat.com) wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 17:16 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 05:00:51PM -0400, James Morris wrote:
> > > This should be an unsigned long.
> > >
> > > I wonder if the default should be for this value to be zero (i.e. preserve
> > > existing behavior). It could break binaries, albeit potentially insecure
> >
> > Agreed - DOSemu type apps and lrmi need to map at zero for vm86
>
> And so it shall be!
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
With James' fix and real changelog ;-)
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
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