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Message-Id: <1660d1687db01852ec58bbf970e22868db367d53.1306851090.git.luto@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 10:14:08 -0400
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@....EDU>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, x86@...nel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>,
richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH v4 10/10] x86-64: Add CONFIG_UNSAFE_VSYSCALLS to feature-removal-schedule
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@....edu>
---
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 9 +++++++++
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 1a9446b..94b4470 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -600,3 +600,12 @@ Why: Superseded by the UVCIOC_CTRL_QUERY ioctl.
Who: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
----------------------------
+
+What: CONFIG_UNSAFE_VSYSCALLS (x86_64)
+When: When glibc 2.14 or newer is ubitquitous. Perhaps mid-2012.
+Why: Having user-executable code at a fixed address is a security problem.
+ Turning off CONFIG_UNSAFE_VSYSCALLS mostly removes the risk but will
+ make the time() function slower on glibc versions 2.13 and below.
+Who: Andy Lutomirski <luto@....edu>
+
+----------------------------
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1.7.5.1
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