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From: Kyle McMartin <kmcmarti@redhat.com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"pmatouse@redhat.com" <pmatouse@redhat.com>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: __clear_user: handle exceptions on strb
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:14:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141113151407.GG6869@redacted.bos.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141113150624.GB18494@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com>

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 03:06:25PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 09:07:44PM +0000, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> > ARM64 currently doesn't fix up faults on the single-byte (strb) case of
> > __clear_user... which means that we can cause a nasty kernel panic as an
> > ordinary user with any multiple PAGE_SIZE+1 read from /dev/zero.
> > i.e.: dd if=/dev/zero of=foo ibs=1 count=1 (or ibs=65537, etc.)
> 
> Thanks for this, it's been like this for a while. Applied.
> 

Thanks Catalin, if it's not too late, I forgot to add a
Reported-by: Miloš Prchlík <mprchlik@redhat.com>
for the initial report of the panic.

regards, Kyle

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-13 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-12 21:07 Kyle McMartin
2014-11-13 15:06 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-11-13 15:14   ` Kyle McMartin [this message]
2014-11-13 15:21     ` Catalin Marinas

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