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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Chris Salls <salls@cs.ucsb.edu>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"security@kernel.org" <security@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/mempolicy.c: fix error handling in set_mempolicy and mbind.
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2017 10:59:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFxY=3AhkOAbDYgWHNrOaBP1q0efi2rWQBQ_Z3ZzUYH1+Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1491634091-18817-1-git-send-email-salls@cs.ucsb.edu>

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 11:48 PM, Chris Salls <salls@cs.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> In the case that compat_get_bitmap fails we do not want to copy the
> bitmap to the user as it will contain uninitialized stack data and
> leak sensitive data.

Ack, looks sane, applied.

              Linus

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      reply	other threads:[~2017-04-08 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-08  6:48 Chris Salls
2017-04-08 17:59 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]

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