From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756276AbaELUzJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2014 16:55:09 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:39630 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753205AbaELUzI (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2014 16:55:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 22:54:44 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: LKML , Dave Jones , Linus Torvalds , Darren Hart , Davidlohr Bueso , Ingo Molnar , Steven Rostedt , Clark Williams , Paul McKenney , Lai Jiangshan , Roland McGrath , Carlos ODonell , Jakub Jelinek , Michael Kerrisk , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] futex: Prevent attaching to kernel threads Message-ID: <20140512205444.GI13467@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <20140512190438.314125476@linutronix.de> <20140512201701.194824402@linutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140512201701.194824402@linutronix.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 08:45:35PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > We happily allow userspace to declare a random kernel thread to be the > owner of a user space PI futex. > > Found while analysing the fallout of Dave Jones syscall fuzzer. Did you also still want to check the ppid for _PRIVATE futexes?