Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752241AbWCJWxy (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:53:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752243AbWCJWxy (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:53:54 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:28846 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752241AbWCJWxx (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:53:53 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:56:05 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Kurt Garloff Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] KERN_SETUID_DUMPABLE in /proc/sys/fs/ Message-Id: <20060310145605.08bf2a67.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060310155738.GL5766@tpkurt.garloff.de> References: <20060310155738.GL5766@tpkurt.garloff.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 613 Lines: 15 Kurt Garloff wrote: > > Diffing in sysctl.c is tricky, using more context is recommended. > suid_dumpable ended up in fs/ instead of kernel/ and the reason > is likely a patch with too little context. It's been in kernel/ since 2.6.13. What will break if we move it? This is security-related. If we move it we risk unsecuring people's machines... - 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/