From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
Cc: "O.Sezer" <sezeroz@ttnet.net.tr>,
jbaron@redhat.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.28-rc1
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:01:37 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041028100137.GI4815@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041027025222.GB9375@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net>
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 07:52:22PM -0700, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:02:44PM +0300, O.Sezer wrote:
> > There are many lost/forgotten patches posted here on lkml. Since 2.4.28
> > is near and 2.4 is going into "deep maintainance" mode soon, I gathered
> > a short list of some of them. There, sure, are many more of them, but
> > here it goes.
> > I think they deserve a re-review and re-consideration for inclusion.
> [snip]
>
> Here's another one:
> Jason Baron: 2.4.28-pre3 tty/ldisc fixes
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109604869516678&w=2
>
> AFAICT the above patch is the fix for:
> CAN-2004-0814: Linux terminal layer races
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=109837405025108&w=2
>
> This patch seems to be working fine for me, but I don't know if anyone
> else has really tested it at all, nor do I know (one way or the other)
> if the security issues are serious enough to apply this for 2.4.28-rc
> and not 2.4.29-pre. Also, I'm running on a single-processor system with
> no HyperThreading, so if there are any SMP-related issues then I have no
> way of experiencing them.
>
> Anyway, since it's a security fix (unless I'm mistaken), I guess it's
> worth considering for inclusion...
Hi Barry,
I think this should be applied as well. The next
-pre makes me more comfortable.
Jason, Alan?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-28 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-26 14:02 O.Sezer
2004-10-26 20:33 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-26 23:28 ` Dave Jones
2004-10-27 12:40 ` O.Sezer
2004-10-27 14:29 ` Dave Jones
2004-10-27 15:29 ` O.Sezer
2004-10-27 18:58 ` Dave Jones
2004-10-28 9:54 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-28 13:28 ` O.Sezer
2004-10-28 14:29 ` O.Sezer
2004-10-28 1:19 ` Pete Zaitcev
2004-10-28 4:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-28 12:53 ` Russell King
2004-11-11 18:30 ` Roger Luethi
2004-10-27 2:52 ` Barry K. Nathan
2004-10-28 10:01 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-22 18:59 Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-22 22:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-10-23 10:43 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-23 19:54 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-10-23 13:30 ` Paul Fulghum
2004-10-23 11:39 ` Marcelo Tosatti
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