From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264388AbTLBVk2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 16:40:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264389AbTLBVk2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 16:40:28 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:429 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264388AbTLBVk0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 16:40:26 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 13:40:18 -0800 From: Chris Wright To: Ville Herva , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 future Message-ID: <20031202134018.A12116@osdlab.pdx.osdl.net> References: <200312011226.04750.nbensa@gmx.net> <20031202115436.GA10288@physik.tu-cottbus.de> <20031202120315.GK13388@conectiva.com.br> <20031202131311.GA10915@physik.tu-cottbus.de> <3FCC95BB.60205@wmich.edu> <20031202160136.GB10915@physik.tu-cottbus.de> <20031202160853.GB22608@gtf.org> <20031202201933.GE1524@niksula.cs.hut.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20031202201933.GE1524@niksula.cs.hut.fi>; from vherva@niksula.hut.fi on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:19:34PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Ville Herva (vherva@niksula.hut.fi) wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:08:53AM -0500, you [Jeff Garzik] wrote: > > Bug fixes, security errata, and the like will always be OK for 2.4. Just > > like Alan continues to release new 2.2.x releases, when major bugs are > > found. > > Which btw invites the question: the recent brk() security fix was ported > from 2.5 to 2.4, right? Any idea whether it applies to 2.2 (and 2.0), too? 2.2 and 2.0 look ok as they use do_mmap() which has proper checks. thanks, -chris -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net