Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755858AbXKBRKH (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2007 13:10:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755580AbXKBRJy (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2007 13:09:54 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:50761 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756239AbXKBRJx (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2007 13:09:53 -0400 Message-ID: <472B59CC.9030206@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:09:32 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: Linus Torvalds , stable@kernel.org, duaneg@dghda.com, npiggin@suse.de Subject: Re: patch remove-broken-ptrace-special-case-code-from-file-mapping.patch queued to -stable tree References: <20071102162222.EC46D14540CB@imap.suse.de> <20071102165816.GA16493@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20071102165816.GA16493@suse.de> 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: 1462 Lines: 35 On 11/02/2007 12:58 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:48:34AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, gregkh@suse.de wrote: >>> This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled >>> >>> Subject: Remove broken ptrace() special-case code from file mapping >> Hmm. I think my patch is good, but Nick's patch is probably safer for a >> stable release. >> >> Mine cleans things up, and removes a rather nasty special case entirely. >> But in the process, it changes user-visible behaviour (for the better, I >> think, but still). >> >> Now, probably nobody cares about the behaviour change, but Nicks patch >> fixes the old broken special case instead of removing it. >> >> Now, it might be perfectly fine to just queue this one on the assumption >> that nobody will really care, and doing a cleanup is better. But I wanted >> to point out the (small) danger. > > I don't see Nick's patch in your tree, and I'd like to keep in sync > wherever possible :) > > Unless Nick really objects, and then I'll drop yours and use his, but I > don't think that Duane verified that his patch fixed the issue. > I put Nick's in Fedora, so it had better work... ;) - 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/