From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262150AbVHCIrM (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 04:47:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262151AbVHCIrM (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 04:47:12 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:54233 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262150AbVHCIrK (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 04:47:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 10:46:59 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Chris Wright Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, Justin Forbes , Zwane Mwaikambo , "Theodore Ts'o" , Randy Dunlap , Chuck Wolber , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, "alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Siddha, Suresh B" , Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [04/13] x86_64 memleak from malicious 32bit elf program Message-ID: <20050803084659.GA10895@wotan.suse.de> References: <20050803064439.GO7762@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <20050803065220.GS7762@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050803065220.GS7762@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ok for me. Thanks Suresh. -Andi On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 11:52:20PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > ------------------ > > malicious 32bit app can have an elf section at 0xffffe000. During > exec of this app, we will have a memory leak as insert_vm_struct() is > not checking for return value in syscall32_setup_pages() and thus not > freeing the vma allocated for the vsyscall page. >