linux-kernel - Re: Fedora Kernel Patch Report

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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1309271449100.8203@twin.jikos.cz>
Date:	Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:49:25 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>,
	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Fedora <kernel@...ts.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: Fedora Kernel Patch Report

On Fri, 13 Sep 2013, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> > crash-driver.patch
> >   - The patch to add /dev/crash.  Dave Anderson keeps making this work (mostly).
> > 
> 
> It is also a security hole.

More than /dev/[k]mem? How so?

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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