Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Dec 2003 13:40:18 -0800 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4 future |
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* Ville Herva (vherva@niksula.hut.fi) wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:08:53AM -0500, you [Jeff Garzik] wrote: > > Bug fixes, security errata, and the like will always be OK for 2.4. Just > > like Alan continues to release new 2.2.x releases, when major bugs are > > found. > > Which btw invites the question: the recent brk() security fix was ported > from 2.5 to 2.4, right? Any idea whether it applies to 2.2 (and 2.0), too?
2.2 and 2.0 look ok as they use do_mmap() which has proper checks.
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