From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992788AbXBITxJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:53:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992774AbXBITxJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:53:09 -0500 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:42935 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423246AbXBITxI (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:53:08 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:51:56 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Michael Krufky Cc: Chris Wright , v4l-dvb maintainer list , stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 00/50] -stable review Message-ID: <20070209195156.GA27018@kroah.com> References: <20070106022753.334962000@sous-sol.org> <45C624D2.9030403@linuxtv.org> <20070205214332.GB18230@kroah.com> <45C7ACAB.6060408@linuxtv.org> <20070205223304.GA19793@kroah.com> <45CA3FBD.70407@linuxtv.org> <45CCCE51.8090103@linuxtv.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45CCCE51.8090103@linuxtv.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:41:05PM -0500, Michael Krufky wrote: > Michael Krufky wrote: > > Greg KH wrote: > > > >>>> I'll go through the archives and see if there's enough to do a .18 > >>>> release (and the patches are serious enough to warrent it.) > >>> Actually, I have a few more -stable patches for both 2.6.18.y and 2.6.19.y, if > >>> you don't mind holding off a day or two (wont have time to prepare these until > >>> tomorrow evening)... One of them is a security fix, that allows a non-root user > >>> to hang the kernel given the correct circumstances. > >> Ok, that's serious enough :) > >> > >> I'll wait for your patches. > >> > >> thanks, > >> > >> greg k-h > > > > I've uploaded the remaining pending v4l/dvb -stable patches for both 2.6.18.y > > and 2.6.19.y to the following locations: > > > > http://linuxtv.org/~mkrufky/stable/2.6.18.y/ (8 patches) > > > > and > > > > http://linuxtv.org/~mkrufky/stable/2.6.19.y/ (5 patches) > > > > Using the mailer at my current location, I am unable to send patches inline, and > > I won't have the time for it this evening. In the interest of saving time, I > > figured that sending them to you in this method is good enough. If you still > > need for me to send them via email inline, please let me know. > > Greg & Chris, > > I haven't heard from either of you about these patches, nor have I seen any > update to the stable-queue. > > Just for clarification, the security fix patch, that prevents a non-root user > from hanging the kernel is the patch entitled, > > "V4L: buf_qbuf: fix videobuf_queue->stream corruption and lockup" > > ...as per Mauro's description, here: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg113820.html Thanks, I'll be flushing out the stable queue later on tonight and will pick up all of these patches. greg k-h