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

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Message-ID: <20060906184509.GA15942@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 6 Sep 2006 11:45:09 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>, tony.luck@...el.com,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	Fernando Vazquez <fernando@....ntt.co.jp>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable@...nel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	devel@...nvz.org, xemul@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:27:33PM -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.

Yes, but the -stable developers don't build for those arches, that's why
it was missed here.

So, what's the proper patch for the next -stable release to fix this
problem?  I see a bunch of different ones floating around...

thanks,

greg k-h
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