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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:23:13 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.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 09:54:33AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:46:01 -0800
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> but are there users of it?
> I thought Andrea stopped the cpushare thing that was the only user of
> this....

I do not really know, but as it is enabled, we need to at least fix it.

thanks,

greg k-h