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Re: [PATCH] x86/vdso: ensure vdso32_enabled gets set to valid values only

From Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] x86/vdso: ensure vdso32_enabled gets set to valid values only
Date 2017-04-06 18:10 +0200
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On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> wrote:
> If either via kernel command line 'vdso32=' or via 'sysctl abi.vsyscall32'
> vdso32_enabled gets set to a value below 0 or above 1, load_vdso32() won't
> map the vDSO but ARCH_DLINFO_IA32 would still pass an AT_SYSINFO_EHDR
> auxiliary vector, however with a NULL pointer. That'll make any program
> trying to make use of it fail with a segmentation fault. At least musl
> makes use of it if the kernel provides it.
>
> Ensure vdso32_enabled gets set to valid values only to fix this corner
> case.

Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

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[PATCH] x86/vdso: ensure vdso32_enabled gets set to valid values only Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> - 2017-04-05 22:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] x86/vdso: ensure vdso32_enabled gets set to valid values only Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-04-06 18:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] x86/vdso: ensure vdso32_enabled gets set to valid values  only Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-04-10 15:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] x86/vdso: ensure vdso32_enabled gets set to valid values  only Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-04-10 15:50 +0200

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