linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs

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Date:	08 Sep 2006 05:12:21 -0400
From:	Jes Sorensen <jes@....com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Fernando Vazquez <fernando@....ntt.co.jp>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, tony.luck@...el.com,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org, xemul@...nvz.org,
	devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs

>>>>> "Arjan" == Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> writes:

Arjan> On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 12:27 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:24:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >
>> If MIPS and parisc don't matter for the stable tree (very possible
>> - there > are no big commercial distributions for them), then
>> dammit, neither should > ia64 and sparc (there are no big
>> commercial distros for them either).
>> 
>> Erm, RHEL and SLES both support ia64.

Arjan> but neither use -stable.

And getting a patch into -stable tends to be a really good argument
for a backport into the next vendor kernel :)

Cheers,
Jes
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