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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4: fix memory corruption from misinterpreted bad_inode_ops return values
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:56:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080124195624.GJ8953@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080124061212.GA22079@ldl.fc.hp.com>

Hi Dann,

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:12:12PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> This is a 2.4 backport of a linux-2.6 change by Eric Sandeen
> (commit be6aab0e9fa6d3c6d75aa1e38ac972d8b4ee82b8)
> 
> CVE-2006-5753 was assigned for this issue.
> 
> I've built and boot-tested this, but I'm not sure how to exercise
> these codepaths.

I have no idea either. Let's consider that if nobody on the list knows
how to do so, I'll merge it since you did not notice any regression.

Thanks,
Willy


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-24 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-24  6:12 [PATCH] 2.4: fix memory corruption from misinterpreted bad_inode_ops return values dann frazier
2008-01-24 19:56 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2008-01-24 21:06   ` Eric Sandeen
2008-01-24 22:39     ` dann frazier
2008-01-24 22:48       ` Eric Sandeen
2008-01-25  4:53         ` Willy Tarreau

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