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On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 05:42:20PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

 > I really don't like this, it means that our normal error handling for
 > userspace data will suddenly all have CVE entries on them over time.
 > How is that helpful to anyone?
 > 
 > Think ahead in 10-20 years, what is the code paths going to look like
 > then?  Horrible...

consider it incentive not to add any new CVEs :)

	Dave