Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: restrict kernel address leak in debugfs

From: Daniel Vetter
Date: Mon Mar 11 2013 - 19:18:35 EST


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:25:19PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Masks kernel address info-leak in object dumps with the %pK suffix,
> so they cannot be used to target kernel memory corruption attacks if
> the kptr_restrict sysctl is set.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Picked up for -fixes, thanks for the patch.
-Daniel
--
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
+41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/