Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764461AbYBLSOE (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:14:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762135AbYBLSNs (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:13:48 -0500 Received: from mail.enyo.de ([212.9.189.167]:4965 "EHLO mail.enyo.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762611AbYBLSNr (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:13:47 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1492 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:13:47 EST From: Florian Weimer To: Greg KH Cc: Matthew Keenan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22.18 References: <20080211074313.GA23195@kroah.com> <20080211074346.GB23195@kroah.com> <1202729485.24584.5.camel@bazbox.opcode-solutions.com> <20080211154512.GA26178@suse.de> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:48:42 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20080211154512.GA26178@suse.de> (Greg KH's message of "Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:45:12 -0800") Message-ID: <878x1q6p6t.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 528 Lines: 13 * Greg KH: > the logic is a little different in 2.6.22 and earlier in regards to this > area of code. This way we are safer. Your patch doesn't include the CVE-2006-0010 hunk. Is this because get_user() implies an access_ok() check (while __copy_from_user() obviously does not)? -- 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/