lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:04:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob@...are.com> To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm: stop vmgfx driver explosion ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com> > > If you do a page flip with no flags set then event is NULL. If event > is NULL then the vmw_gfx driver likes to go digging into NULL and > extracts NULL->base.file_priv. > > On a modern kernel with NULL mapping protection it's just another > oops, without it there are some "intriguing" possibilities. > > What it should do is an open question but that for the driver owners > to sort out. > > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com> Thanks Alan! Reviewed-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob@...are.com> I think CC stable is in order. Cheers, Jakob. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists