Re: [ 008/102] ARM: make vectors page inaccessible from userspace

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

On Friday 09 August 2013, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 3.10-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit a5463cd3435475386cbbe7b06e01292ac169d36f upstream.
> 
> If kuser helpers are not provided by the kernel, disable user access to
> the vectors page.  With the kuser helpers gone, there is no reason for
> this page to be visible to userspace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


If I read Russell King's response in 

	http://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg16792.html
	Message-ID: <20130804105241.GG23006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

correctly, this patch might not be wanted for -stable; this only 
affects queue-3.10 at the moment.

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
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