From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261412AbULYNX0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Dec 2004 08:23:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261399AbULYNX0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Dec 2004 08:23:26 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:47255 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261412AbULYNXW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Dec 2004 08:23:22 -0500 Subject: Re: Ho ho ho - Linux v2.6.10 From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <1103977161.22646.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 12:19:24 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Gwe, 2004-12-24 at 22:39, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok, with a lot of people taking an xmas break, here's something to play > with over the holidays (not to mention an excuse for me to get into the > Glögg for real ;) Merry Yule to you too. Not wishing to be too ungrateful to Santa but - The broken AX.25 patches are not reverted so that doesn't work on some networks - It seems the security hole inducing exec_id change was not reverted and I've not yet found any other changes that fix the same problem (setuid_app >/proc/self/mem) in 2.6.10. It was actually quite nasty as a hole because you can seek the fd to the right target address before execing. With the other /proc changes did I miss something on this one I'll check it all over in more detail when I generate 2.6.10-ac (probably tomorrow), which will be nice as the patch will be a _lot_ shorter and USB storage a lot happier than 2.6.9 based systems. Alan