Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753826Ab0KIXti (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2010 18:49:38 -0500 Received: from smtp.outflux.net ([198.145.64.163]:49985 "EHLO smtp.outflux.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751191Ab0KIXtf (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2010 18:49:35 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 15:48:52 -0800 From: Kees Cook To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Pekka Enberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , Andrew Morton , Jiri Slaby , "David S. Miller" , Hugh Dickins , Manfred Spraul Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipc: explicitly clear stack memory in user structs Message-ID: <20101109234852.GC5876@outflux.net> References: <20101025235804.GA11760@outflux.net> <20101109205008.GU5876@outflux.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Canonical X-HELO: www.outflux.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1030 Lines: 30 Hi Linus, On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 02:46:30PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > > No one has committed it. I don't know why; I've sent it a few times now. > > You seem to have sent it just to lkml. At least in this case the patch > itself was not sent to me (only the subsequent replies were), and the > choice of recipients was fairly odd apart from Andrew (who probably > _is_ the right person). I've been avoiding sending minor security issues like this directly to you or security@kernel.org since that probably should be a high-priority channel. > > I don't quite see where you got the particular collection of people from. I used scripts/get_maintainer.pl -Kees -- Kees Cook Ubuntu Security Team -- 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/