Re: [4.1 backport trouble] Re: BUGreport: fix minor infoleak in get_user_ex()

From	"Levin, Alexander" <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
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Subject	Re: [4.1 backport trouble] Re: BUGreport: fix minor infoleak in get_user_ex()
Date	2016-10-30 19:30 +0100
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 10:02:10PM -0400, Al Viro wrote:
> ... and frankly, backporting 548acf19234d would be my preference.  It's a bit
> more intrusive than needed (_ASM_EXTABLE_FAULT is used only in memcpy_mcsafe(),
> which is used only by pmem and it's the only reason for passing the trap
> number to fixup_exception()), but AFAICS it's fairly safe.  Objections?

I've grabbed 548acf19234d for 4.1, thanks!

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Thanks,
Sasha

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Re: BUGreport: fix minor infoleak in get_user_ex() Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-10-28 02:10 +0200
  [4.1 backport trouble] Re: BUGreport: fix minor infoleak in  get_user_ex() Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-10-28 04:10 +0200
    Re: [4.1 backport trouble] Re: BUGreport: fix minor infoleak in get_user_ex() Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-10-28 20:30 +0200
      Re: [4.1 backport trouble] Re: BUGreport: fix minor infoleak in  get_user_ex() Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-10-28 22:00 +0200
        Re: [4.1 backport trouble] Re: BUGreport: fix minor infoleak in  get_user_ex() Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> - 2016-10-28 23:30 +0200
    Re: [4.1 backport trouble] Re: BUGreport: fix minor infoleak in  get_user_ex() Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-10-28 21:40 +0200
    Re: [4.1 backport trouble] Re: BUGreport: fix minor infoleak in  get_user_ex() "Levin, Alexander" <alexander.levin@verizon.com> - 2016-10-30 19:30 +0100

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