From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CAN-2003-0018 vs 2.6?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:50:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040329105009.08b0a38a.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040329131536.GA6296@lst.de>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>
> CAN-2003-0018 (Linux O_DIRECT Direct Input/Output Information Leak
> Vulnerability) is still not fixed in mainline 2.6.
>
> Last time I pinged you you said you didn't like the fixes but we're
> getting to the point where 2.6 gets seriously used and we should start
> to care. In fact SuSE has been adding the patches to their tree now
> which means an direct I/O API change which is kinda messy to maintain
> for XFS (which isn't even affected by the vulnerability due to it's own
> locking) that's supposed to supply vendors with uptodas.
>
> So any plans to gets this in?
The fixes for this have been ready to go for a week or so. It's 2.6.6-pre
material.
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2004-03-29 13:15 Christoph Hellwig
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