Removing vm86 support?

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Wed Jul 8 19:31:25 UTC 2015


On Wed, 2015-07-08 at 11:29 -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:

> It may not end up going away.  I want to mark it BROKEN, which means
> that basically everyone's config will disable it.  The problem is that
> it's buggy and probably full of security holes.


Certainly using it the way xserver needs to for int10 is a root
escalation waiting to happen, mapping the zero page is not wise.
CONFIG_BROKEN sounds just fine to me.

- ajax


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