From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: restrict kernel address leak in debugfs
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:18:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130311231821.GE3872@bremse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130311192519.GA18185@www.outflux.net>
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:25:19PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Masks kernel address info-leak in object dumps with the %pK suffix,
> so they cannot be used to target kernel memory corruption attacks if
> the kptr_restrict sysctl is set.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Picked up for -fixes, thanks for the patch.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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