From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755325Ab2EGDGJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 May 2012 23:06:09 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:38223 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755205Ab2EGDGI (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 May 2012 23:06:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4FA73C14.4090709@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 20:05:56 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120329 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller 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 References: <20120506.194037.1148847080889462521.davem@davemloft.net> <8c91e0ff-dc31-4f94-8008-33d8c3d3c8ef@email.android.com> <20120506.225639.74405234456670944.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20120506.225639.74405234456670944.davem@davemloft.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/06/2012 07:56 PM, David Miller wrote: > 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? :-/ Just when on a cell phone... -hpa