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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/mm: Don't alias user region to other regions below PAGE_OFFSET
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 19:54:13 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160903095413.GA868@fergus.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vayeqyo7.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 05:52:16PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Really nice catch. Was this found by code analysis or do we have any
> reported issue around this ?

I found it by code analysis.

I haven't been able to find any really bad consequence, beyond leaking
some information about kernel memory.  Can you find any worse
consequence?

Paul.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-03  9:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-02 11:47 [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/mm: Don't alias user region to other regions below PAGE_OFFSET Paul Mackerras
2016-09-02 11:49 ` [PATCH 2/3] powerpc/mm: Preserve CFAR value on SLB miss caused by access to bogus address Paul Mackerras
2016-09-04 11:30   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-09-07  5:52     ` Paul Mackerras
2016-09-13 12:16   ` [2/3] " Michael Ellerman
2016-09-02 11:50 ` [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/mm: Speed up computation of base and actual page size for a HPTE Paul Mackerras
2016-09-04 11:16   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-09-05  5:04   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-09-07  5:07     ` Paul Mackerras
2016-09-07  6:17   ` [PATCH v2 " Paul Mackerras
2016-09-08 10:08     ` Paul Mackerras
2016-09-08 10:16       ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-12  0:58         ` Paul Mackerras
2016-09-12  3:03         ` Michael Ellerman
2016-09-12  9:45           ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-02 12:22 ` [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/mm: Don't alias user region to other regions below PAGE_OFFSET Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-09-03  9:54   ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2016-09-04 11:31     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-09-08  9:47 ` [1/3] " Michael Ellerman

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