Re: [PATCH] x86_32,entry: Do syscall exit work on badsys (CVE-2014-4508)

Borislav Petkov
2014-06-24T21:18:09Z

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 01:53:25PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> It confirms my sense that no one knows how to test this stuff :-/
> It's pretty clear that no one has ever extensively hammered it.

Someone might've known at some point but who knows who knew. :-)

> I wonder how much could be effectively rewritten in C. I'm thinking of
> redoing most of the entry work in C, but that won't help here.

Whatever you do, you'll have to do testing yourself, I'm afraid, here
too. And then, after the patch is long committed and forgotten, someone
would resurface complaining that it breaks some obscure use case.

Eeh, the sad life of a kernel developer. :-\

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