From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753734Ab0C0RTI (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:19:08 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f172.google.com ([209.85.211.172]:48822 "EHLO mail-yw0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753661Ab0C0RTG (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:19:06 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=jS4Ts8GfpdFdo1iijzjdsO07h8biugkL9ote6Y+Kkt8yotUNE6G1ejrUR5jhhIXVXh ETVokE+s/srjHKb5Uji8Rc0iwKZU2Y+coDAulAAYo4zXXa8Ha/5M1JInmzeiebf6Hfpf PgEu0SftsbWdm6BB4yzginn5Z/jik4QFd753k= Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:21:00 -0400 From: Michael Gilbert To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: CVE-2009-4537 Message-Id: <20100327142100.38d21565.michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.1 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, CVE-2009-4537 has been disclosed without any upstream activity for a while now. Discussion about the issue dried up in January [0], and a patch had been proposed [1], but no arguments were seen either for or against it. Note that redhat has already shipped that in their various kernel security updates. Would it make sense to merge those changes officially? Best wishes, Mike [0] http://marc.info/?t=126202986900002&r=1&w=2 [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=126210110408898&w=2