From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755363AbZB1U34 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:29:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753239AbZB1U3s (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:29:48 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:41892 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752678AbZB1U3r (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:29:47 -0500 Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:27:17 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , stable@kernel.org, Roland McGrath Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 2/2] x86-64: seccomp: fix 32/64 syscall hole Message-ID: <20090228202717.GA29139@kroah.com> References: <20090228030226.C0D34FC3DA@magilla.sf.frob.com> <20090228030413.5B915FC3DA@magilla.sf.frob.com> <20090228072554.CFEA6FC3DA@magilla.sf.frob.com> <20090228174601.GB27607@kroah.com> <20090228095433.6af07a89@infradead.org> <20090228182313.GA28421@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090228182313.GA28421@kroah.com> 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 Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:23:13AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > 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 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. Sorry, I ment "we" as in SuSE, not as the "community". As the patch can easily be backported to the SuSE kernels and resolved there, I don't think it's something that probably needs to be backported for the -stable tree either. thanks, greg k-h