Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:31:41 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - reset inode permissions before unlinking |
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On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:26:41AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > That said, this does fix a possible security problem when a misconfigured > > > system is used, and the fix looks rather simple... ?Can it go to -stable > > > eventually, even if it is months in the future, after it gets some testing > > > in .34 ? ? Minor problems are still problems... > > > > Sure, we could do that. There is some stuff in the current .33 kernel, > > which could go into .32-stable too, if that's useful. > > I think it probably would be useful. I understand .32 is going to stay with > us for a long time, so it should get any fixes that have withstood the test > of time. > > It is very annoying to have subtly different kernel behaviour (from > mainline) in a long-term stable series...
I've queued up this patch to go into the -stable trees. Any other specific one you can think of should also go?
thanks,
greg k-h
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