Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933322Ab3HIEo6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Aug 2013 00:44:58 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:56972 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932154Ab3HIEo5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Aug 2013 00:44:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 21:46:20 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Russell King Subject: Re: [ 008/102] ARM: make vectors page inaccessible from userspace Message-ID: <20130809044620.GA10681@kroah.com> References: <20130809015010.208118575@linuxfoundation.org> <20130809015012.154316979@linuxfoundation.org> <201308090629.21809.s.L-H@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201308090629.21809.s.L-H@gmx.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1395 Lines: 38 On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 06:29:17AM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > On Friday 09 August 2013, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Russell King > > > > commit a5463cd3435475386cbbe7b06e01292ac169d36f upstream. > > > > If kuser helpers are not provided by the kernel, disable user access to > > the vectors page. With the kuser helpers gone, there is no reason for > > this page to be visible to userspace. > > > > Signed-off-by: Russell King > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > If I read Russell King's response in > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg16792.html > Message-ID: <20130804105241.GG23006@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> > > correctly, this patch might not be wanted for -stable; this only > affects queue-3.10 at the moment. Yes, I know there's a build warning/error here, but it only affects no mmu systems, right? I'll pick up the fix that hits Linus's tree for this when it gets there. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/