linux-kernel - Re: Security fix for remapping of page 0 (was [PATCH] Change ZERO_SIZE

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0906031414570.4880@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 3 Jun 2009 14:20:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
	"Larry H." <research@...reption.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	pageexec@...email.hu
Subject: Re: Security fix for remapping of page 0 (was [PATCH] Change 
 ZERO_SIZE_PTR to point at unmapped space)



On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> 
> Use mmap_min_addr indepedently of security models

Looks ok by me. As mentioned, it would be nice if the coherency with the 
'capabilities' security module was something inherent to the code, but 
this looks like a sane minimal patch.

			Linus
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