On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:31:32 +0200 Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 17:11 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I guess other architectures will need to do this. See > > 01408c4939479ec46c15aa7ef6e2406be50eeeca and > > 7c12d81134b130ccd4c286b434ca48c4cda71a2f for the rationale. > > Urgh, s390 does not have the problem that is does pad the leftover bytes > in __copy_from_user_inatomic but that is does NOT pad the leftover bytes > in __copy_from_user .. > That permits users to read uninitialised kernel memory by appending to a file from a bad address then reading the result back.... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
