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From: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:21:52 +0200
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH v2] syscalls/timer_create: Add test for
 CVE-2017-18344
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Hi Christian,

> In kernels prior to 4.14.8 (missing commit cef31d9af908)
> the sigevent.sigev_notify field is not properly checked
> when creating a timer using timer_create(2).
> This can be used to read arbitrary kernel memory.

Thanks for your patch, merged into master (with Cyril's and Li's ack).

Kind regards,
Petr