[kernel-sec-discuss] r5239 - active

[Ben Hutchings]

Author: benh
Date: 2017-04-28 02:05:28 +0000 (Fri, 28 Apr 2017)
New Revision: 5239

Modified:
   active/CVE-2017-7616
Log:
Note architecture-specific nature of CVE-2017-7616

Modified: active/CVE-2017-7616
===================================================================
--- active/CVE-2017-7616	2017-04-28 00:13:39 UTC (rev 5238)
+++ active/CVE-2017-7616	2017-04-28 02:05:28 UTC (rev 5239)
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 References:
  https://grsecurity.net/the_infoleak_that_mostly_wasnt.php
 Notes:
+ bwh> As Brad Spengler notes, this doesn't affect amd64.  The compat
+ bwh> wrappers are only used for swapping bitmap words on 64-bit
+ bwh> architectures that are (or can be) big-endian.  Fixing this on
+ bwh> wheezy was a (small) waste of time.
 Bugs:
 upstream: released (4.11-rc6) [cf01fb9985e8deb25ccf0ea54d916b8871ae0e62]
 4.9-upstream-stable: released (4.9.22) [cddab768d13469d1e254fb8c0e1629f93c8dfaca]