From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759549AbYD3QyS (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:54:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757323AbYD3QyD (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:54:03 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:33693 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755512AbYD3QyC (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:54:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:39:51 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Greg KH , "Theodore Ts'o" , Zwane Mwaikambo , Justin Forbes , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Wedgwood , Domenico Andreoli , Randy Dunlap , Michael Krufky , Chuck Ebbert , Jeff Garzik , Dave Jones , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Chuck Wolber , stable@kernel.org, Alan Cox Subject: Re: [stable] [27/37] tehuti: move ioctl perm check closer to function start (CVE-2008-1675) Message-ID: <20080430163951.GD22558@kroah.com> References: <20080429171222.073929148@mini.kroah.org> <20080429171901.GB14724@suse.de> <20080429191310.203384eb@core> <20080429185543.GA24643@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:02:14PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Hm, that's the way it is in Linus's tree, we should change it there > > first. > > Done. It will be commit 6203554207728f43cfb9fd48585cd6500da73d42 when I > push out (but please point to the original commit that actually adds the > check: 6203554 just changes from CAP_NET_ADMIN to CAP_SYS_RAWIO and is not > as important as adding the check in the first place. Thanks, I'll add this to the queue for 2.6.25-stable as well. greg k-h