Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932369AbVIZEYU (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 00:24:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932370AbVIZEYU (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 00:24:20 -0400 Received: from koto.vergenet.net ([210.128.90.7]:15521 "EHLO koto.vergenet.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932369AbVIZEYT (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 00:24:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:04:52 +0900 From: Horms To: Nikos Ntarmos Cc: 329354@bugs.debian.org, Marcelo Tosatti , Frederik Schueler , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: CAN-2005-0204 and 2.4 Message-ID: <20050926020450.GA18357@verge.net.au> References: <20050922023025.GA20981@verge.net.au> <20050922135624.GA4346@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050922135624.GA4346@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> X-Cluestick: seven User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1319 Lines: 32 On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 04:56:24PM +0300, Nikos Ntarmos wrote: > Hi there. > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 11:30:25AM +0900, Horms wrote: > > The problem that you see is a patch that was included in 2.4.27-11 > > (the current version in sid), though it isn't built for amd64. > > > > Could you see if the following patch works for you. > > Yes it does. That's exactly what I also did to make it build, but I > didn't send in a patch as I wasn't sure that 4 (sizeof(u32)) is the > right factor for a 64-bit arch. > > > I've CCed lkml and Marcelo for their consideration. It seems to me > > that 2.4 is indeed vulnerable to CAN-2005-0204, perhaps someone can > > shed some light on this. > > My intuition agrees with yours. However, as also stated in #329355 by > fs, "the amd64 port does not support 2.4 kernels, and there are no plans > to change this", so I guess this is not-a-bug for debian/x86_64. Well, its not a Debian bug as such, but it was an upstream bug which has now been fixed and should appear in 2.4.32. So your efforts weren't entirely in vain. -- Horms - 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/