linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/9] Known exploit detection

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Date:	Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:21:30 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Ryan Mallon <rmallon@...il.com>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, vegard.nossum@...cle.com,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] Known exploit detection

On Fri, 13 Dec 2013, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:

> Note however if you trip one of those in any code with the console lock
> held and your log goes to the consoles due to printk level or similar
> you'll probably hang the box.

Also if someone is holding current->alloc_lock.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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