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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH][TAKE3] Fix vulnerability of copy_to_user in

To: Jarod Wilson <jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH][TAKE3] Fix vulnerability of copy_to_user in PAL emulation
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:34:10 -0700
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On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 16:15 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Alex Williamson wrote:
> >    Yes, I believe the exposure is there too.  I was planning to port it
> > to the 3.1 tree once it's in the mainline.  It looks very straight
> > forward, just omit the chunk updating pal_brand_info since that didn't
> > exist back then.  Thanks,
> 
> Yeah, was a pretty straight-forward port to our 3.1.x codebase. Dunno if
> you've already taken care of it, but just in case, attached is the
> back-port I put together for RHEL5. (not an hg diff, sorry...)

   Thanks!

        Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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