From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757987AbZKESUb (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:20:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757641AbZKESUb (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:20:31 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:54320 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757577AbZKESUa (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:20:30 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:19:43 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Michael Buesch cc: Jiri Kosina , Michael Gilbert , Jack Steiner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: CVE-2009-2584 In-Reply-To: <200911051847.36103.mb@bu3sch.de> Message-ID: References: <20091104170542.e40b12ec.michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com> <200911051847.36103.mb@bu3sch.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Michael Buesch wrote: > > Looks OK to me. I can't test it however, as I don't own the hardware. Heh. Even the people who wanted to write exploit examples had the same small problem. I doubt it really matters for anybody. I'm committing it, just because I don't think it can really be any worse than the status quo. But I'll happily take further patches, especially from anybody who actually has access to the hardware. Linus