From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
stable-commits@vger.kernel.org, Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Subject: Re: Patch "security: fix typo in security_task_prctl" has been added to the 4.2-stable tree
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 22:06:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151018050605.GA7436@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrUysa1qQuivPpEfbL5bngOQ2SDdF4XexB=1Xu2nryrc+Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 09:30:50PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Oct 17, 2015 3:04 PM, <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >
> > security: fix typo in security_task_prctl
> >
> > to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at:
> > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
>
> It should be safe, but I don't think the bug is observable in any
> released kernel. Jann noticed it because it interferes with ambient
> capabilities, but those are new in 4.3.
Yeah, I figured it was just a good thing to get fixed no matter what :)
thanks for the review,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-18 5:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-17 22:04 Patch "security: fix typo in security_task_prctl" has been added to the 4.2-stable tree gregkh
2015-10-18 4:30 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-10-18 5:06 ` Greg KH [this message]
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