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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:27:17 -0800 From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> Cc: 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>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, stable@...nel.org, Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com> Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 2/2] x86-64: seccomp: fix 32/64 syscall hole On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:23:13AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 09:54:33AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > 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.... > > I do not really know, but as it is enabled, we need to at least fix it. Sorry, I ment "we" as in SuSE, not as the "community". As the patch can easily be backported to the SuSE kernels and resolved there, I don't think it's something that probably needs to be backported for the -stable tree either. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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