Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:06:31 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmap |
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* Eric Paris (eparis@redhat.com) wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 17:16 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 05:00:51PM -0400, James Morris wrote: > > > This should be an unsigned long. > > > > > > I wonder if the default should be for this value to be zero (i.e. preserve > > > existing behavior). It could break binaries, albeit potentially insecure > > > > Agreed - DOSemu type apps and lrmi need to map at zero for vm86 > > And so it shall be! > > Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
With James' fix and real changelog ;-)
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