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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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Subject: Re: Patch "security: fix typo in security_task_prctl" has been added
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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