linux-kernel - Re: [stable] [PATCH 2/2] x86-64: seccomp: fix 32/64 syscall hole

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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
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