From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262129AbVADVRB (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:17:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262055AbVADVQM (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:16:12 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:39866 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262008AbVADVJQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:09:16 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] disallow modular capabilities From: Lee Revell To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <20050102200032.GA8623@lst.de> <1104870292.8346.24.camel@krustophenia.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:09:02 -0500 Message-Id: <1104872943.8346.30.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 13:05 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > And I posted this to LKML almost a week ago, and a real fix was posted > > in response. > > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/28/112 > > Well, I realize that it has been on bugtraq, but does that make it a real > concern? I'll make the tristate a boolean, but has anybody half-way sane > ever _done_ what is described by the bugtraq posting? IOW, it looks pretty > much like a made-up example, also known as a "don't do that then" kind of > buglet ;) Well, a buglet is still a type of bug ;-) What's wrong with Serge's patch? I don't see any downside. http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/29/59 Lee