From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753238Ab1HAUJE (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2011 16:09:04 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:58503 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753169Ab1HAUJB (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2011 16:09:01 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 22:08:57 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Tim Gardner , Andi Kleen , dan@aloni.org, davem@davemloft.net, gregkh@suse.de, ak@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, tim.bird@am.sony.com, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] [26/98] af_unix: Only allow recv on connected seqpacket sockets. Message-ID: <20110801200857.GE27083@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20110726534.972201586@firstfloor.org> <20110727003518.6DA772403FF@tassilo.jf.intel.com> <4E3035BE.6090908@canonical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > For 2.6.38, and Andi's 2.6.35 which has the potential for an > unprivileged process to trigger an oops, it seems irresponsible to me to > not include this change. People who exploit kernel flaws seem good at > taking random Oops's and converting them into methods for privilege > escalation. I'll ship 2.6.25.14 without the patch, but can you guys please come to a conclusion whether the patch is useful or not. I'll reconsider it for .15. Thanks, -Andi