From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755304Ab2EGC4r (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 May 2012 22:56:47 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:44031 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755205Ab2EGC4q (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 May 2012 22:56:46 -0400 Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 22:56:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20120506.225639.74405234456670944.davem@davemloft.net> To: hpa@zytor.com Cc: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ralf@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] broken TASK_SIZE for ia32_aout From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <8c91e0ff-dc31-4f94-8008-33d8c3d3c8ef@email.android.com> References: <20120506.194037.1148847080889462521.davem@davemloft.net> <8c91e0ff-dc31-4f94-8008-33d8c3d3c8ef@email.android.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.4 on Emacs 23.3 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Sun, 06 May 2012 19:56:42 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 16:48:00 -0700 > Why not just make it illegal to make the system calls you don't care > about then, to prevent any security issue? I'll take a closer look tomorrow. BTW, when did you start top-posting? :-/