From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755345Ab0IPObz (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:31:55 -0400 Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:51425 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754866Ab0IPOby (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:31:54 -0400 X-Authenticated: #10250065 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19s4jMzF7hszn6gDmVorUncfmJaBMy4UJB27aLa8I MrMO2++jZ8vH0w Message-ID: <4C922A55.3050002@gmx.de> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:31:49 +0200 From: Florian Tobias Schandinat User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100328) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Corbet CC: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, LKML Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] viafb security fix References: <4C9162BA.6000307@gmx.de> <20100916080456.0f50ec6a@bike.lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20100916080456.0f50ec6a@bike.lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jonathan Corbet schrieb: > On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:20:10 +0200 > Florian Tobias Schandinat 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. True, the author did CC stable@kernel.org so I guess it should be okay. Sorry for not making that clear in the patch itself. Thanks, Florian Tobias Schandinat