Re: Bug in vme subsystem (vme.c)

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On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 01:16:27PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Even though I said it wasn't a security bug, what I should have
> said as well is that in the new trusted computing model it actually
> is a security problem.  Root is only allowed to do whatever it wants
> unless secure boot is disabled in the BIOS.

What?  Who has defined such a "model" for Linux?  You aren't thinking
about "UEFI secure boot" here, are you?  Or is this something else?

> We really do need to handle integer overflows as an error here.

Agreed,

greg k-h
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