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DateWed, 3 Aug 2005 10:46:59 +0200
FromAndi Kleen <>
SubjectRe: [04/13] x86_64 memleak from malicious 32bit elf program
Ok for me. Thanks Suresh.

-Andi


On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 11:52:20PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> malicious 32bit app can have an elf section at 0xffffe000.  During
> exec of this app, we will have a memory leak as insert_vm_struct() is
> not checking for return value in syscall32_setup_pages() and thus not
> freeing the vma allocated for the vsyscall page.
> 
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