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Date:	Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:48:42 +0100
From:	Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Matthew Keenan <matt@...ode-solutions.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22.18

* Greg KH:

> the logic is a little different in 2.6.22 and earlier in regards to this
> area of code.  This way we are safer.

Your patch doesn't include the CVE-2006-0010 hunk.  Is this because
get_user() implies an access_ok() check (while __copy_from_user()
obviously does not)?
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