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Re: [ping][PATCH][BZ #13862] Reuse of cached stack can cause bounds overrun of thread DTV


On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 9:39 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>>> > On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Is Paul's paperwork ready now?
>>> >
>>> > There is an assignment for past and future changes (dated 2014-5-13) and a
>>> > disclaimer from Procera Networks for past changes (dated 2014-1-21).
>>> >
>>>
>>> Can we move forward with Paul's fix?
>>
>> Someone needs to retest and resubmit it.  It's so old it's not in
>> patchwork (which only tracks patch submissions back to this March).
>>
>
> I will rebase and submit a new patch with a testcase.

Paul's fix is based on _dl_update_slotinfo in the same file.  However,
his patch failed to properly convert INSTALL_NEW_DTV to INSTALL_DTV.
I believe this is the correct fix.  I will submit the complete patch with a
testcase later.


-- 
H.J.

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