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Re: [PATCH 0/3] ABI CHANGE!!! Remove questionable remote SP reads

From Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 0/3] ABI CHANGE!!! Remove questionable remote SP reads
Date 2016-10-04 01:10 +0200
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote:
> Jann Horn noticed that KSTK_ESP + eager task stack freeing was a bad
> combination and could crash.  I could very easily fix it to not
> crash, but I think that using KSTK_ESP on a remote task is
> questionable in general.  Therefore, I propose to get rid of the
> major users for 4.9.

Ping!

We need to decide fairly soon whether to apply these (or perhaps just
patch 1 or just patches 2 and 3) for 4.9.  For any parts that aren't
applied, I'll send quick fixups to pin the stack in the offending
code.

--Andy

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[PATCH 0/3] ABI CHANGE!!! Remove questionable remote SP reads Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-09-30 20:00 +0200
  [PATCH 1/3] proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in /proc/PID/stat Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-09-30 20:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in /proc/PID/stat Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> - 2016-09-30 21:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/3] proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in /proc/PID/stat Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-10-01 04:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 1/3] proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in /proc/PID/stat Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-10-01 06:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 1/3] proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in /proc/PID/stat Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> - 2016-10-01 12:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] ABI CHANGE!!! Remove questionable remote SP reads Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-10-04 01:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/3] ABI CHANGE!!! Remove questionable remote SP reads Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-10-04 01:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/3] ABI CHANGE!!! Remove questionable remote SP reads Raymond Jennings <shentino@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 09:10 +0200

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