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From:	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
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Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 2/2] x86-64: seccomp: fix 32/64 syscall hole
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On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 09:23:36AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > But here is the patch you asked for.
> 
> Yes, this looks much more straightforward. 
> 
> And I guess the seccomp interaction means that this is potentially a 
> 2.6.29 thing. Not that I know whether anybody actually _uses_ seccomp. It 
> does seem to be enabled in at least Fedora kernels, but it might not be 
> used anywhere.

It's enabled in SuSE kernels.

thanks,

greg k-h