From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB16F6B007E for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:30:13 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4B627236.1040508@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:29:26 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Security] DoS on x86_64 References: <144AC102-422A-4AA3-864D-F90183837EA3@googlemail.com> <20100128001802.8491e8c1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4B61B00D.7070202@zytor.com> <4B62141E.4050107@zytor.com> <4B621D48.4090203@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , security@kernel.org, "Luck, Tony" , James Morris , Mike Waychison , Michael Davidson , linux-mm@kvack.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Mathias Krause , Roland McGrath List-ID: Here is a cleaned-up version of my patches... I pretty much used your descriptions straight off. The first one is your original split patch with my (small) changes folded in, the second one is my removal of TIF_ABI_PENDING. The main difference, again, is that my variant sets the personality *before* calling setup_new_exec(). -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org