Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Tue, 11 Jul 2017 08:04:50 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fatal signal handing within uaccess faults |
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 7:16 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Arch maintainer tl;dr: most arch fault code doesn't handle fatal signals > correctly, allowing unprivileged users to create an unkillable task which can > lock up the system. Please check whether your arch is affected.
I haven't tested for real, but brief inspection of the code suggests that x86 is okay.
--Andy
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