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Date:      Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:48:16 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net>, Bill Crisp <bcrisp@crispernetworks.com>
Subject:   Re: CVE-2012-0217 Intel's sysret Kernel Privilege Escalation and FreeBSD 6.2/6.3
Message-ID:  <201207311048.16392.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAD4099k=h9T=fEXK5UjYoGifo8NGKcPWRA7eQ4C15sgdR2CMQQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 4:59:21 pm James wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Bill Crisp <bcrisp@crispernetworks.com> 
wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately I tried to put the code from the patch in place but there
> > seems to be some missing functions in the header file and too many
> > arguments to a function and some other errors below:
> 
>     Hi Bill. Yes, the patch for >= FreeBSD 7 won't apply directly to
>     6. ksi and the refined SIGBUS traps don't exist yet. Here's how I
>     fixed it at work. Using this on multiple releng_6* branches.
> 
>     HTH!

This looks correct.  A cosmetic nit would be to move the new changes up above 
the "Traced system call" comment.

-- 
John Baldwin



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