ACK: [v2] [CVE-2015-8944] [Trusty/Vivid/Xenial] [PATCH 0/1] /proc/iomem: only expose physical resource addresses to privileged users

[Colin Ian King]

On 09/06/17 13:56, Brad Figg wrote:
> CVE-2015-8944
> 
> In commit c4004b02f8e5b ("x86: remove the kernel code/data/bss resources
> from /proc/iomem") I was hoping to remove the phyiscal kernel address
> data from /proc/iomem entirely, but that had to be reverted because some
> system programs actually use it.
> 
> This limits all the detailed resource information to properly
> credentialed users instead.
> 
> Linus Torvalds (1):
>   /proc/iomem: only expose physical resource addresses to privileged
>     users
> 
>  kernel/resource.c | 13 +++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
Clean cherry pick, looks OK to me. Thanks Brad

Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>