Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262974AbUDPMdG (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:33:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263014AbUDPMdG (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:33:06 -0400 Received: from 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk ([81.2.122.30]:2944 "EHLO 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262974AbUDPMdC (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:33:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:37:09 +0100 From: John Bradford Message-Id: <200404161237.i3GCb9Jf000164@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Andre Hedrick , Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20040416102820.GD14796@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <200404161020.i3GAKSv9000256@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <1082111045.9600.0.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <200404161030.i3GAUrcB000356@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <20040416102820.GD14796@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Subject: Re: SATA support merge in 2.4.27 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1515 Lines: 39 Quote from Arjan van de Ven : > > --g7w8+K/95kPelPD2 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 11:30:53AM +0100, John Bradford wrote: > > Quote from Arjan van de Ven : > > > > > > --=-De0mPL9BnMYZGB8TurTV > > > Content-Type: text/plain > > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > > > On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 12:20, John Bradford wrote: > > > > Quote from Andre Hedrick : > > > > > You are suggesting that 2.6 is not stable ? How could that be ? > > > >=20 > > > > It hasn't exactly been audited for security issues yet. > > > > > > neither has the biggest part of the 2.4 codebase. > > > > A valid point, but last time I checked, there were known exploits that had > > been fixed in 2.4 but not in 2.6. > > maybe you should check again and report what you find because I for sure > can't think of any. I honestly don't have the time to go through the archives at the moment, and having been busy, I could well have missed any fixes that have gone in during the last couple of releases, but I am 99% sure that Alan identified a couple of local root exploits around 2.6.0 that had been fixed in 2.4 but never applied to 2.6. John. - 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/