Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Fri, 22 Feb 2019 18:32:49 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] kprobe: Do not use uaccess functions to access kernel memory that can fault |
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 6:29 PM Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> wrote: > > imo this kernel release should finish as-is and in the next cycle we can > change probe_kernel_read() to reject user address [..]
Absolutely. Nothing is going to change right now for 5.0, which is imminent.
It's really a "long-term we really need to fix this", where the only question is how soon "long-term" is.
Linus
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