From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.19rc3aa4
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:08:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020731170802.R10270@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020730060218.GB1181@dualathlon.random>; from andrea@suse.de on Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 08:02:18AM +0200
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 08:02:18AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Merged async-io from Benjamin LaHaise after purifying it from the
> /proc/libredhat.so mess that made it not binary compatible with 2.5.
>
> While merging I did a number of cleanups and fixes, to mention a few of
> them I fixed a shell root exploit in map_user_kvect by using
> get_user_pages (that honours VM_MAYWRITE), it avoids corruption of
> KM_IRQ0 by doing spin_lock_irq in aio_read_evt, and a number of other
> minor not security and not stability related changes. Left out the
> networking async-io, it can be merged trivially at a later stage (if
> needed :).
Care to explain the problem and provide a separate patch for all the
people who aren't using your tree of patches? If there's a problem
as you claim, then it likely affects map_user_kiobuf too.
-ben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-31 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-30 6:02 2.4.19rc3aa4 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-30 8:42 ` 2.4.19rc3aa4 Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-30 16:56 ` 2.4.19rc3aa4 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-30 14:36 ` 2.4.19rc3aa4 J.A. Magallon
2002-07-31 15:54 ` 2.4.19rc3aa4 Daniel Phillips
2002-07-31 21:08 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-07-31 21:40 ` 2.4.19rc3aa4 Andrea Arcangeli
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