Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758525Ab0APC0q (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:26:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758397Ab0APC0p (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:26:45 -0500 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:54731 "EHLO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758296Ab0APC0p (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:26:45 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: BOZS+J42N2mgbQED66z35ER31hAdaAdRyvQU9ldblPDw 1263608804 Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:26:41 -0200 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: Kay Sievers Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - reset inode permissions before unlinking Message-ID: <20100116022641.GF3814@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <1263388596.26006.1.camel@yio.site> <20100114205304.GC3814@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20100114210743.GE3814@khazad-dum.debian.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1024D/1CDB0FE3 5422 5C61 F6B7 06FB 7E04 3738 EE25 DE3F 1CDB 0FE3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Kay Sievers wrote: > > That said, this does fix a possible security problem when a misconfigured > > system is used, and the fix looks rather simple... ?Can it go to -stable > > eventually, even if it is months in the future, after it gets some testing > > in .34 ? ? Minor problems are still problems... > > Sure, we could do that. There is some stuff in the current .33 kernel, > which could go into .32-stable too, if that's useful. I think it probably would be useful. I understand .32 is going to stay with us for a long time, so it should get any fixes that have withstood the test of time. It is very annoying to have subtly different kernel behaviour (from mainline) in a long-term stable series... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- 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/