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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/19] OpenRISC: System calls
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:11:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2k4chfrwf.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1308498672.3017.240.camel@localhost> (Jonas Bonn's message of "Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:51:12 +0200")

Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> writes:

> On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 17:09 +0200, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> wrote:
>> > +asmlinkage int _sys_vfork(struct pt_regs *regs)
>> > +{
>> > +       /* This doesn't seem to work */
>> > +//        return do_fork(CLONE_VFORK | CLONE_VM | SIGCHLD, regs->sp, regs, 0, NULL, NULL);
>> 
>> Just being curious, why does that not work?
>
> Something about the CLONE_VM flag is breaking things... not sure what,

When "breaking" is a kernel oops or similar then you have a security
hole because CLONE_VM can be specified directly by user space in
clone()

So most likely you need to fix that anyways.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-19 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-19 11:43 OpenRISC Architecture: Request for review Jonas Bonn
2011-06-19 11:43 ` [PATCH 01/19] OpenRISC: Boot code Jonas Bonn
2011-06-19 17:14   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-19 11:43 ` [PATCH 02/19] OpenRISC: Device tree Jonas Bonn
2011-06-19 17:19   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-19 11:43 ` [PATCH 03/19] OpenRISC: Memory management Jonas Bonn
2011-06-19 18:35   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-19 11:43 ` [PATCH 04/19] OpenRISC: Signal handling Jonas Bonn
2011-06-19 11:43 ` [PATCH 05/19] OpenRISC: Build infrastructure Jonas Bonn
2011-06-19 18:57   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-19 11:43 ` [PATCH 06/19] OpenRISC: PTrace Jonas Bonn
2011-06-19 11:43 ` [PATCH 07/19] OpenRISC: DMA Jonas Bonn
2011-06-19 19:02   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-19 11:43 ` [PATCH 08/19] OpenRISC: Timekeeping Jonas Bonn
2011-06-19 19:06   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-19 11:43 ` [PATCH 09/19] OpenRISC: IRQ Jonas Bonn
2011-06-19 19:09   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-19 11:43 ` [PATCH 10/19] OpenRISC: System calls Jonas Bonn
2011-06-19 15:09   ` richard -rw- weinberger
2011-06-19 15:51     ` Jonas Bonn
2011-06-19 21:11       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2011-06-19 11:43 ` [PATCH 11/19] OpenRISC: Idle/Power management Jonas Bonn
2011-06-20  8:20   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-19 11:43 ` [PATCH 12/19] OpenRISC: Scheduling/Process management Jonas Bonn
2011-06-19 19:12   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-19 21:17   ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-19 11:43 ` [PATCH 13/19] OpenRISC: GPIO Jonas Bonn
2011-06-19 11:43 ` [PATCH 14/19] OpenRISC: Module support Jonas Bonn
2011-06-21 20:03   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-06-22 14:26     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-22 19:08       ` [PATCH 1/1] Add default implementations for moduleloader hooks Jonas Bonn
2011-06-22 19:14       ` [PATCH 14/19] OpenRISC: Module support Jonas Bonn
2011-06-22 19:58         ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-22 20:05           ` Jonas Bonn
2011-06-22 20:46             ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-24  8:52       ` Jonas Bonn
2011-06-24 10:05         ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-24 11:06           ` Rusty Russell
2011-06-19 11:43 ` [PATCH 15/19] OpenRISC: Traps Jonas Bonn
2011-06-19 11:43 ` [PATCH 16/19] OpenRISC: Headers Jonas Bonn
2011-06-19 19:39   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-19 19:43     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-19 20:19   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-06-19 11:43 ` [PATCH 17/19] OpenRISC: Library routines Jonas Bonn
2011-06-19 11:43 ` [PATCH 18/19] OpenRISC: Miscellaneous Jonas Bonn
2011-06-19 11:43 ` [PATCH 19/19] OpenRISC: Add MAINTAINERS entry Jonas Bonn
2011-06-19 17:06 ` OpenRISC Architecture: Request for review Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-22 21:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-23  9:10   ` Jonas Bonn
2011-06-23  9:54     ` Julius Baxter

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