Eric W. Biederman a928972864 [PATCH] Don't uselessly export task_struct to userspace in core dumps ... task_struct is an internal structure to the kernel with a lot of good information, that is probably interesting in core dumps. However there is no way for user space to know what format that information is in making it useless. I grepped the GDB 6.3 source code and NT_TASKSTRUCT while defined is not used anywhere else. So I would be surprised if anyone notices it is missing. In addition exporting kernel pointers to all the interesting kernel data structures sounds like the very definition of an information leak. I haven't a clue what someone with evil intentions could do with that information, but in any attack against the kernel it looks like this is the perfect tool for aiming that attack. So since NT_TASKSTRUCT is useless as currently defined and is potentially dangerous, let's just not export it. (akpm: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> "would be amazed" if anything was using NT_TASKSTRUCT). Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>		2005-10-30 17:37:18 -08:00
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alpha	[PATCH] memory hotplug locking: node_size_lock	2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
arm	[PATCH] mm: split page table lock	2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
arm26	[PATCH] mm: arches skip ptlock	2005-10-29 21:40:40 -07:00
cris	[PATCH] mm: cris v32 mmu_context_lock	2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
frv	[PATCH] mm: split page table lock	2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
h8300	kbuild: h8300,m68knommu,sh,sh64 use generic asm-offsets.h support	2005-09-09 20:28:49 +02:00
i386	[PATCH] i386: use -mcpu, not -mtune, for GCCs older than 3.4	2005-10-30 17:37:16 -08:00
ia64	[PATCH] memory hotplug locking: node_size_lock	2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
m32r	[PATCH] m32r: SMC91x driver update	2005-10-30 17:37:16 -08:00
m68k	[PATCH] mm: init_mm without ptlock	2005-10-29 21:40:40 -07:00
m68knommu	[PATCH] m68knommu: startup code for the Drangen Engine 68328 based board	2005-09-12 20:04:15 -07:00
mips	[PATCH] Don't uselessly export task_struct to userspace in core dumps	2005-10-30 17:37:18 -08:00
parisc	[PATCH] TIOC* compat ioctl handling	2005-10-30 17:37:17 -08:00
ppc	[PATCH] remove some more check_region stuff	2005-10-30 17:37:18 -08:00
ppc64	[PATCH] TIOC* compat ioctl handling	2005-10-30 17:37:17 -08:00
s390	[PATCH] remove timer debug field	2005-10-30 17:37:18 -08:00
sh	[PATCH] mm: i386 sh sh64 ready for split ptlock	2005-10-29 21:40:41 -07:00
sh64	[PATCH] mm: i386 sh sh64 ready for split ptlock	2005-10-29 21:40:41 -07:00
sparc	[PATCH] remove some more check_region stuff	2005-10-30 17:37:18 -08:00
sparc64	[PATCH] TIOC* compat ioctl handling	2005-10-30 17:37:17 -08:00
um	[PATCH] uml: remove old UM_FASTCALL, and make the thing work again	2005-10-30 17:37:16 -08:00
v850	[PATCH] V850: C99 initializers for hw_interrupt_type structures	2005-09-10 10:06:27 -07:00
x86_64	[PATCH] introduce setup_timer() helper	2005-10-30 17:37:17 -08:00
xtensa	[PATCH] gfp_t: dma-mapping (xtensa)	2005-10-28 08:16:49 -07:00