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Message-Id: <1245054461.6800.72.camel@laptop>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:27:41 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Darren Hart <dvhltc@...ibm.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bug: fio traps into kernel without exiting because futex has a
deadloop
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 14:03 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> > + ret = get_user_writeable(uaddr);
> X86 pte entry has no READABLE flag. Other platforms might have. If their pte
> only set WRITE flag, Is it poosible to create a similiar DOS attack with
> WRITEONLY area on such platforms?
I just checked a few such platforms and generic code, we seem to assume
read on write, and read when present in the generic code.
And those few platforms that supported wr-only also implemented that
(alpha, avr32 -- there might be more didn't go through all).
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