Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758880Ab0APDdL (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:33:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758792Ab0APDc5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:32:57 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:59170 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758235Ab0APDc4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:32:56 -0500 Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:31:41 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: Kay Sievers , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - reset inode permissions before unlinking Message-ID: <20100116033141.GB15306@kroah.com> References: <1263388596.26006.1.camel@yio.site> <20100114205304.GC3814@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20100114210743.GE3814@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20100116022641.GF3814@khazad-dum.debian.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100116022641.GF3814@khazad-dum.debian.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:26:41AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > 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... I've queued up this patch to go into the -stable trees. Any other specific one you can think of should also go? 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/