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Message-Id: <201308090629.21809.s.L-H@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 06:29:17 +0200 From: "Stefan Lippers-Hollmann" <s.L-H@....de> To: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org, Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk> Subject: Re: [ 008/102] ARM: make vectors page inaccessible from userspace On Friday 09 August 2013, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > ------------------ > > From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk> > > commit a5463cd3435475386cbbe7b06e01292ac169d36f upstream. > > If kuser helpers are not provided by the kernel, disable user access to > the vectors page. With the kuser helpers gone, there is no reason for > this page to be visible to userspace. > > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> If I read Russell King's response in http://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg16792.html Message-ID: <20130804105241.GG23006@...00.arm.linux.org.uk> correctly, this patch might not be wanted for -stable; this only affects queue-3.10 at the moment. Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann -- 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/
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