| From | "Stefan Lippers-Hollmann" <> | Subject | Re: [ 008/102] ARM: make vectors page inaccessible from userspace | Date | Fri, 9 Aug 2013 06:29:17 +0200 |
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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.
Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
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