Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758227AbXKBShb (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2007 14:37:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755693AbXKBShV (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2007 14:37:21 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:47020 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755512AbXKBShU (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2007 14:37:20 -0400 Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 11:00:04 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Duane Griffin Cc: Chuck Ebbert , npiggin@suse.de, Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [stable] patch remove-broken-ptrace-special-case-code-from-file-mapping.patch queued to -stable tree Message-ID: <20071102180004.GA22849@kroah.com> References: <20071102162222.EC46D14540CB@imap.suse.de> <20071102165816.GA16493@suse.de> <472B59CC.9030206@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1138 Lines: 29 On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 05:52:25PM +0000, Duane Griffin wrote: > On 02/11/2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > On 11/02/2007 12:58 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > > 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... ;) > > I've tested both patches, and they both fix the problem. So no > worries, either way :) > > As Linus said, his patch does change the behaviour. I'm not qualified > to judge how risky that is, however I think that the change is an > improvement. In fact in my original bug report I suggested the old > behaviour could be considered buggy and the new behaviour might be > preferable. Ok, thanks for letting me know. I'll stick with Linus's patch for now, unless someone really complains :) thanks, greg k-h - 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/