Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262020AbVADVI1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:08:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261945AbVADVIR (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:08:17 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:46269 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261869AbVADVFh (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:05:37 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 13:05:29 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Lee Revell cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] disallow modular capabilities In-Reply-To: <1104870292.8346.24.camel@krustophenia.net> Message-ID: References: <20050102200032.GA8623@lst.de> <1104870292.8346.24.camel@krustophenia.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 736 Lines: 21 On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > And I posted this to LKML almost a week ago, and a real fix was posted > in response. > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/28/112 Well, I realize that it has been on bugtraq, but does that make it a real concern? I'll make the tristate a boolean, but has anybody half-way sane ever _done_ what is described by the bugtraq posting? IOW, it looks pretty much like a made-up example, also known as a "don't do that then" kind of buglet ;) Linus - 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/