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Revision 8e1f74ea02cf4562404c48c6882214821552c13f authored by Kees Cook on 07 September 2016, 16:54:34 UTC, committed by Kees Cook on 07 September 2016, 18:33:26 UTC
A custom allocator without __GFP_COMP that copies to userspace has been
found in vmw_execbuf_process[1], so this disables the page-span checker
by placing it behind a CONFIG for future work where such things can be
tracked down later.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1373326

Reported-by: Vinson Lee <vlee@freedesktop.org>
Fixes: f5509cc18daa ("mm: Hardened usercopy")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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History
Tip revision: 8e1f74ea02cf4562404c48c6882214821552c13f authored by Kees Cook on 07 September 2016, 16:54:34 UTC
usercopy: remove page-spanning test for now
Tip revision: 8e1f74e
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