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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:22:03 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: select: fix information leak to userspace
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:18:40 -0800

> We can't reasonably address this with gcc changes.  If gcc starts doing
> what we want in the next release, how long will it be until that
> release is the *oldest* version of gcc which the kernel may be compiled
> with?  Five years?

Completely agreed.