Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:08:02 -0400 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.19rc3aa4 |
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 08:02:18AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Merged async-io from Benjamin LaHaise after purifying it from the > /proc/libredhat.so mess that made it not binary compatible with 2.5. > > While merging I did a number of cleanups and fixes, to mention a few of > them I fixed a shell root exploit in map_user_kvect by using > get_user_pages (that honours VM_MAYWRITE), it avoids corruption of > KM_IRQ0 by doing spin_lock_irq in aio_read_evt, and a number of other > minor not security and not stability related changes. Left out the > networking async-io, it can be merged trivially at a later stage (if > needed :).
Care to explain the problem and provide a separate patch for all the people who aren't using your tree of patches? If there's a problem as you claim, then it likely affects map_user_kiobuf too.
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