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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:42:56 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
       Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: headers - fix export private data to userspace
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Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> Impact: cleanup
> 
> 'make headers_check' warn us about leaking of kernel private
> (mostly compile time vars) data to userspace in headers. Fix it.
> 
> More detailed report for easier reviewing:
> 
> 1) boot.h - neither BOOT_HEAP_SIZE, BOOT_STACK_SIZE refs
>    was found by searching thru net (ie in user-space area).
> 
> 2) prctl.h - sys_arch_prctl is completely removed from
>    header since frankly I don't even understand why we
>    describe it here. It is described like
>     __SYSCALL(__NR_arch_prctl, sys_arch_prctl) in unistd_64.h
>    and implemented in process_64.c. User-mode linux involved?
>    So this one in fact is suspicious.
> 
> 3) ptrace-abi.h - ptrace_bts_config struct is wrapped
>    by __KERNEL__ -- not sure if it was ever proposed for
>    userland.
> 
> 4) setup.h - COMMAND_LINE_SIZE saved for userspace, bootloaders
>    could use it.
> 
> 5) sigcontext32.h - we really need linux/types.h here
>    since we use __u... types.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>

Hi Cyrill; in addition to nonexporting COMMAND_LINE_SIZE, could you 
submit this as a patchset to make post-integration bisect easier?

	-hpa
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