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Message-ID: <20080828004807.GC16607@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:48:08 -0500
From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
To: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>,
"Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@...nel.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] file capabilities: Add no_file_caps switch
Quoting James Morris (jmorris@...ei.org):
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, David Howells wrote:
>
> > (2) Neuter sys_capset(). I've been holding this off for the next merge
> > window as it isn't a bugfix, unlike (1). Perhaps I should ask James to
> > push it to Linus. James?
>
> Linus only pulled the PF_SUPERPRIV fix once the sys_capset change was
> removed from the patch. It really does need to be a bugfix at this stage.
Ok, sorry, of course that makes sense. I was just confused about where
the patch was originally heading.
Would it be appropriate to put the capset neutering patch in your
security-testing tree, James, or does that feed straight into
linux-next?
thanks,
-serge
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