On Sun 23-11-14 13:49:27, Tetsuo Handa wrote: [...] > I reported this vulnerability last year and a CVE number was assigned, > but no progress has been made. If a malicious local user notices a > patchset that mitigates/fixes this vulnerability, the user is free to > attack existing Linux systems. Therefore, I propose this patchset before > any patchset that mitigates/fixes this vulnerability is proposed. I have looked at patches and I do not believe they address anything. They seem like random and ad-hoc hacks which pretend to solve a class of problems but in fact only paper over potentially real ones. [...] -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>