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| From | Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fatal signal handing within uaccess faults |
| Date | 2017-07-11 17:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <u24Xx-3TD-45@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <u24b8-3nP-23@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 7:16 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Arch maintainer tl;dr: most arch fault code doesn't handle fatal signals > correctly, allowing unprivileged users to create an unkillable task which can > lock up the system. Please check whether your arch is affected. I haven't tested for real, but brief inspection of the code suggests that x86 is okay. --Andy
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[PATCH 0/2] Fatal signal handing within uaccess faults Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-07-11 16:20 +0200
[PATCH 1/2] arm64: mm: abort uaccess retries upon fatal signal Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-07-11 16:20 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fatal signal handing within uaccess faults Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-07-11 16:30 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fatal signal handing within uaccess faults Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2017-07-11 17:10 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fatal signal handing within uaccess faults Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-07-11 17:20 +0200
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