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Hi Linus, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I did a slight modification of the patch I committed initially, in the > face of the report from Marcel that the initial sledge-hammer approach > broke his hald setup. > > See commit 9ee8ab9fbf21e6b87ad227cd46c0a4be41ab749b: "Relax /proc fix a > bit", which should still fix the bug (can somebody verify? I'm 100% sure, > but still..), but is pretty much guaranteed to not have any secondary side > effects. > > It still leaves the whole issue of whether /proc should honor chmod AT ALL > open, and I'd love to close that one, but from a "minimal fix" standpoint, > I think it's a reasonable (and simple) patch. > > Marcel, can you check current git? I can confirm that the new fix prevents the exploit from working, with no immediately visible side effects. Thanks, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.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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