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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zlib double-free bug
Date: 19 Mar 2002 10:06:03 -0800
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Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203191044150.26226-100000@passion.cambridge.redhat.com>
By author:    David Woodhouse <dwmw2@redhat.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> 
> > David Woodhouse writes:
> > 
> > > After it's been in -ac for a while without mishap I'll ask Marcelo to
> > > consider it - possibly for 2.4.20-pre1.
> > 
> > Yep, that sounds good to me.  For now, I think my patch should go in
> > for 2.4.19.
> 
> Absolutely - sorry, I didn't mean to imply otherwise.
> 
> For the record - it's not worth bothering with fs/jffs2/zlib.c; if they 
> can corrupt your file system on the medium, why bother with cracking zlib? 
> :)
> 

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