From: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Ho ho ho - Linux v2.6.10
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:44:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d8e3fd304122904442a602a8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1103977161.22646.6.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 12:19:24 +0000, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Gwe, 2004-12-24 at 22:39, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Ok, with a lot of people taking an xmas break, here's something to play
> > with over the holidays (not to mention an excuse for me to get into the
> > Glögg for real ;)
>
> Merry Yule to you too.
>
> Not wishing to be too ungrateful to Santa but
>
> - The broken AX.25 patches are not reverted so that doesn't work on some
> networks
>
> - It seems the security hole inducing exec_id change was not reverted
> and I've not yet found any other changes that fix the same problem
> (setuid_app >/proc/self/mem) in 2.6.10. It was actually quite nasty as a
> hole because you can seek the fd to the right target address before
> execing. With the other /proc changes did I miss something on this one
>
> I'll check it all over in more detail when I generate 2.6.10-ac
> (probably tomorrow), which will be nice as the patch will be a _lot_
> shorter and USB storage a lot happier than 2.6.9 based systems.
>
Having at least a -rc or maintaining a 2.6.XY.Z branch would avoid
these problems in my very humble opinion.
Best,
--
Paolo Ciarrocchi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-29 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-24 22:39 Ho ho ho - Linux v2.6.10 Linus Torvalds
2004-12-25 11:11 ` Andrew Walrond
2004-12-25 12:19 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-26 11:30 ` Wichert Akkerman
2004-12-26 13:45 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-12-26 19:37 ` Pavel Machek
2004-12-26 19:39 ` Pavel Machek
2004-12-26 20:27 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-12-26 22:10 ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-13 18:09 ` 2.6.10-mm3: swsusp: out of memory on resume (was: Re: Ho ho ho - Linux v2.6.10) Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-01-13 19:59 ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-13 21:22 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-01-14 14:34 ` hugang
2005-01-14 17:25 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-01-15 21:43 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-01-16 21:51 ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-17 14:53 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-01-17 15:22 ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-18 1:44 ` hugang
[not found] ` <200501150042.35377.rjw@sisk.pl>
2005-01-15 1:21 ` hugang
[not found] ` <200501151147.32919.rjw@sisk.pl>
[not found] ` <200501152220.42129.rjw@sisk.pl>
2005-01-16 5:54 ` hugang
2005-01-16 10:07 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-01-16 14:46 ` hugang
2005-01-17 15:48 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-01-17 16:49 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-12-30 9:58 ` Ho ho ho - Linux v2.6.10 Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-12-26 15:45 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-29 12:44 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi [this message]
2004-12-26 2:55 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-12-26 3:36 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <1104171962.18174.28.camel@d845pe>
2004-12-28 16:38 ` Ho ho ho - Linux v2.6.10 (irq18) Bill Davidsen
2004-12-26 4:19 ` Ho ho ho - Linux v2.6.10 Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-12-26 5:12 ` [PATCH] parport_pc: don't mix module parameter styles Randy.Dunlap
2004-12-26 20:35 ` Ho ho ho - Linux v2.6.10 Greg Norris
2004-12-27 1:31 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-12-28 2:36 ` Greg Norris
2004-12-27 16:10 ` Ho ho ho - Linux v2.6.10 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-12-28 1:04 ` Ho ho ho - Linux v2.6.10 Håkan Lindqvist
2004-12-26 4:10 Paul Blazejowski
2004-12-26 5:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-26 15:46 ` James Bottomley
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