linux-kernel - Re: [patch 42/94] [PATCH 11/44] [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 01

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Message-ID: <20090116110029.GA28778@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Date:	Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:00:29 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	Justin Forbes <jmforbes@...uxtx.org>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@....linux.org.uk>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Chuck Wolber <chuckw@...ntumlinux.com>,
	Chris Wedgwood <reviews@...cw.f00f.org>,
	Michael Krufky <mkrufky@...uxtv.org>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	Domenico Andreoli <cavokz@...il.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	Rodrigo Rubira Branco <rbranco@...checkpoint.com>,
	Jake Edge <jake@....net>, Eugene Teo <eteo@...hat.com>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>, jbenc@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [patch 42/94] [PATCH 11/44] [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 01


> 2.6.28-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> 
> commit 58fd3aa288939d3097fa04505b25c2f5e6e144d1 upstream.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

That does not make review exactly easy. Would it be possible to
inline upstream comment in the commit message?

...upstream commit message is empty :-(.

> -asmlinkage long
> -sys_nanosleep(struct timespec __user *rqtp, struct timespec __user *rmtp)
> +SYSCALL_DEFINE2(nanosleep, struct timespec __user *, rqtp,
> +		struct timespec __user *, rmtp)
>  {
>  	struct timespec tu;
>  

Is it strictly neccessary to modify all the syscalls? 

									Pavel
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