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Message-ID: <20090228095433.6af07a89@infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:54:33 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 2/2] x86-64: seccomp: fix 32/64 syscall hole

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:46:01 -0800
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 09:23:36AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > > But here is the patch you asked for.
> > 
> > Yes, this looks much more straightforward. 
> > 
> > And I guess the seccomp interaction means that this is potentially
> > a 2.6.29 thing. Not that I know whether anybody actually _uses_
> > seccomp. It does seem to be enabled in at least Fedora kernels, but
> > it might not be used anywhere.
> 
> It's enabled in SuSE kernels.
> 

but are there users of it?
I thought Andrea stopped the cpushare thing that was the only user of
this....


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