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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2012-03-23 12:08:55 -0700 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2012-03-29 11:37:17 +0200 |
| commit | ec0c4274e33c0373e476b73e01995c53128f1257 (patch) | |
| tree | 9a73585bde46f22b3896191efe57393d19966b32 /Documentation | |
| parent | bdbb776f882f5ad431aa1e694c69c1c3d6a4a5b8 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-ec0c4274e33c0373e476b73e01995c53128f1257.tar.gz lwn-ec0c4274e33c0373e476b73e01995c53128f1257.zip | |
futex: Mark get_robust_list as deprecated
Notify get_robust_list users that the syscall is going away.
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: spender@grsecurity.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120323190855.GA27213@www.outflux.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 0cad4803ffac..c1be8066ea59 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -529,3 +529,13 @@ When: 3.5 Why: The old kmap_atomic() with two arguments is deprecated, we only keep it for backward compatibility for few cycles and then drop it. Who: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> + +---------------------------- + +What: get_robust_list syscall +When: 2013 +Why: There appear to be no production users of the get_robust_list syscall, + and it runs the risk of leaking address locations, allowing the bypass + of ASLR. It was only ever intended for debugging, so it should be + removed. +Who: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> |