From: Earl Chew <echew@ixiacom.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support single byte reads from integers published in procfs by kernel/sysctl.c
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:27:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F201F6E.9020201@ixiacom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120124145037.f8223e37.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On 24/01/2012 2:50 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> We fixed an instance of this in procfs a while ago (maybe a year ago?).
> But I forget where it was. It is surprising that a bug of this nature
> survived so long.
Also related to procfs, I posted the following fix for pread() and seq_file but
haven't received any feedback.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/22/61
Would you take a look ?
Earl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-25 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-22 18:46 [PATCH] Support single byte reads from integers published in procfs by kernel/sysctl.c Earl Chew
2012-01-23 14:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-23 15:49 ` Earl Chew
2012-01-23 16:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-23 16:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-23 16:47 ` Earl Chew
2012-01-24 22:50 ` Andrew Morton
2012-01-25 6:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-25 15:27 ` Earl Chew [this message]
2012-01-29 22:56 ` Earl Chew
2012-01-30 0:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-30 1:13 ` Earl Chew
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