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Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 10:44:43 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/11] mm: Hardened usercopy

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 9:02 AM, David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com> wrote:
> From: Kees Cook
>> Sent: 20 July 2016 16:32
> ...
>> Yup: that's exactly what it's doing: walking up the stack. :)
>
> Remind me to make sure all our customers run kernels with it disabled.

What's your concern with stack walking?

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS & Brillo Security

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