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Subject: Re: 2.6.1-rc1 affected?
From: Markus =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E4stbacka?= <midian@ihme.org>
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On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 18:46, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Yup.
>=20
Why isn't there any security update to 2.6.0/2.6.1-rc1 out yet, then?
Yes, the patch..
But I think there's corporations who use 2.6.0 and don't read the lkml.

Just a penny for my thoughts..

Regards,
Markus

> I'd actually personally prefer a stronger test than the one in 2.4.24, an=
d=20
> my personal preference would be for just disallowing the degenerate cases
> entirely.  I don't see a "mremap away" as being a valid thing to do, sinc=
e=20
> if that is what you want, why not just do a "munmap()"?
>=20
> Uli cc'd, to check whether libc could ever use a zero-sized mremap()..
>=20
> 		Linus
--=20
"Software is like sex, it's better when it's free."
Markus H=E4stbacka <midian at ihme dot org>

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