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From: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] viafb security fix
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:31:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C922A55.3050002@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100916080456.0f50ec6a@bike.lwn.net>

Jonathan Corbet schrieb:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:20:10 +0200
> Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>> It contains a single patch to initialize the memory before it is copied to 
>> userspace. As this issue could be a security flaw it would be good to have this 
>> patch in the next release.
> 
> This one seems worth directing toward the stable tree as well.

True, the author did CC stable@kernel.org so I guess it should be okay.
Sorry for not making that clear in the patch itself.


Thanks,

Florian Tobias Schandinat


      reply	other threads:[~2010-09-16 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-16  0:20 [GIT PULL] viafb security fix Florian Tobias Schandinat
2010-09-16 14:04 ` Jonathan Corbet
2010-09-16 14:31   ` Florian Tobias Schandinat [this message]

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