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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:04:56 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] viafb security fix
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:20:10 +0200
Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> wrote:

> It contains a single patch to initialize the memory before it is copied to 
> userspace. As this issue could be a security flaw it would be good to have this 
> patch in the next release.

This one seems worth directing toward the stable tree as well.

jon