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From: "Levin, Alexander" <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@concurrent.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Levin, Alexander" <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Subject: Re: [4.1 backport trouble] Re: BUGreport: fix minor infoleak in get_user_ex()
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 14:16:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161030181632.GB2574@sasha-lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161028020210.GL19539@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 10:02:10PM -0400, Al Viro wrote:
> ... and frankly, backporting 548acf19234d would be my preference.  It's a bit
> more intrusive than needed (_ASM_EXTABLE_FAULT is used only in memcpy_mcsafe(),
> which is used only by pmem and it's the only reason for passing the trap
> number to fixup_exception()), but AFAICS it's fairly safe.  Objections?

I've grabbed 548acf19234d for 4.1, thanks!

-- 

Thanks,
Sasha

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-30 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20161027193210.GA23006@zipoli.ccur.com>
2016-10-28  0:03 ` Al Viro
2016-10-28  2:02   ` [4.1 backport trouble] " Al Viro
     [not found]     ` <20161028164033.GA29952@zipoli.ccur.com>
2016-10-28 18:21       ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-28 19:49         ` Al Viro
2016-10-28 21:29           ` Greg KH
2016-10-28 19:34       ` Al Viro
2016-10-30 18:16     ` Levin, Alexander [this message]

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