[PATCH 0/2]: ARM: Enable THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
Russell King (Oracle)
linux at armlinux.org.uk
Thu Sep 2 09:54:51 PDT 2021
On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 09:07:42AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 08:54:26AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> > Placing thread_info in the kernel stack leaves it vulnerable to stack
> > overflow attacks. This short series addresses that by using the
> > existing THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK infrastructure.
>
> Very cool! Thanks for working on this. If you want, you can refer to the
> KSPP bug for this too:
> https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/1
Not so fast. It's buggy. I've rejected this "solution" before.
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