One fix for a bug in our context id handling on 64-bit hash CPUs, which can lead
to unrelated processes being able to read/write to each other's virtual memory.
See the commit for full details.
That is the fix for CVE-2019-12817.
This also adds a kernel selftest for the bug.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-5.2-6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
"One fix for a bug in our context id handling on 64-bit hash CPUs,
which can lead to unrelated processes being able to read/write to each
other's virtual memory. See the commit for full details.
That is the fix for CVE-2019-12817.
This also adds a kernel selftest for the bug"
* tag 'powerpc-5.2-6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
selftests/powerpc: Add test of fork with mapping above 512TB
powerpc/mm/64s/hash: Reallocate context ids on fork
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