| Date | Thu, 8 Aug 2013 21:46:20 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [ 008/102] ARM: make vectors page inaccessible from userspace |
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On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 06:29:17AM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > 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@arm.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@arm.linux.org.uk> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > > If I read Russell King's response in > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg16792.html > Message-ID: <20130804105241.GG23006@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> > > correctly, this patch might not be wanted for -stable; this only > affects queue-3.10 at the moment.
Yes, I know there's a build warning/error here, but it only affects no mmu systems, right? I'll pick up the fix that hits Linus's tree for this when it gets there.
thanks,
greg k-h
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