From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bjorn Helgaas Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 13:53:34 +0000 Subject: Re: user-space unaligned accesses Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 08 October 2003 5:36 pm, David Mosberger wrote: > Bjorn> The Red Hat concern was specifically about writing to the > Bjorn> user tty. > > There are users (other than me ;-) that find the messages helpful. If > there is something wrong about the current printing code, I'd rather > fix that instead (and as Grant pointed out, if someone doesn't like > the message, prctl can be used to turn it off). The mail you > forwarded was unclear on whether there was a real security/correctness > bug. If there is, please ask for/provide details. I did ask Red Hat to post the patch themselves. I just posted it to make sure it didn't get completely dropped when I cleaned out my inbox. Perhaps this will provide an opening for them to give more details :-) Bjorn