Re: [git patches] parisc bug fixes for 2.6.25

[Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:38:58AM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 02:22:20PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> wrote:
> > > > The following changes since commit cdeeeae056a429e729ae9e914fa8142ee45bee93:
> > > >   Linus Torvalds (1):
> > > >         Linux 2.6.25-rc5
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > > 
> > > What hardware is this known to boot on? I want to update my base
> > > kernel for userspace testing, currently 2.6.20.
> > > 
> > 
> > no idea. it booted on my rp3440 and c8k
> 
> It also boots on my c3750 (32-bit kernel).  However, sshd still is doing
> wierd stuff.  Here's another example.
> 
> Mar 17 10:28:11 xxxxxx sshd[22586]: fatal: Privilege separation user sshd does not exist
> 

I don't see this... what is the machine running? I'm concerned maybe one
of the new syscalls is being used in glibc or something.

> This security bug leaves the system wide open to being compromised, so
> I'm not going to use it.  I like 2.6.22.19 + Kyle's compat_sys_getdents
> and irq.c patches.
>