From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755222AbZB1Ry3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:54:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753189AbZB1RyV (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:54:21 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:46392 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752320AbZB1RyU (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:54:20 -0500 Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:54:33 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Greg KH Cc: Linus Torvalds , Roland McGrath , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 2/2] x86-64: seccomp: fix 32/64 syscall hole Message-ID: <20090228095433.6af07a89@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20090228174601.GB27607@kroah.com> References: <20090228030226.C0D34FC3DA@magilla.sf.frob.com> <20090228030413.5B915FC3DA@magilla.sf.frob.com> <20090228072554.CFEA6FC3DA@magilla.sf.frob.com> <20090228174601.GB27607@kroah.com> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:46:01 -0800 Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 09:23:36AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Roland McGrath wrote: > > > But here is the patch you asked for. > > > > Yes, this looks much more straightforward. > > > > And I guess the seccomp interaction means that this is potentially > > a 2.6.29 thing. Not that I know whether anybody actually _uses_ > > seccomp. It does seem to be enabled in at least Fedora kernels, but > > it might not be used anywhere. > > It's enabled in SuSE kernels. > but are there users of it? I thought Andrea stopped the cpushare thing that was the only user of this.... -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org