From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C24A6B007D for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:18:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:18:01 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [Security] DoS on x86_64 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <144AC102-422A-4AA3-864D-F90183837EA3@googlemail.com> <2BCD2997-7101-4BFF-82CC-A5EC2F4F8E9E@googlemail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Mathias Krause Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , security@kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Mathias Krause wrote: > > > > So I agree that it has become a 64-bit process, and that the whole > > personality crap is buggy. > > So it's not really fixed yet :) Right. Peter looked at it at some point. But there's a big difference between "we have always had problems with that execve() mess" and "we have a nasty DoS that can be triggered by regular users", and the two may well have independent fixes. Linus -- 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