Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Aug 2013 21:27:34 +0200 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/1] (Was: Linux 3.11-rc4) |
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On 08/07, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > It's a security issue: setting debug traps on kernel code/data > addresses can not only leak information, it can cause serious trouble > (taking a debug trap on the first instruction of an NMI handler etc) > including kernel stack corruption...
I guess Grazvydas only meant the "unnecessary" align/len/type checks.
But you are right of course.
Oleg.
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