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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:42:39 -0700

> David - the issue is _security_. The way to fix security problems is
> not to say "most things handle this correctly". The way to avoid them
> is to have several layers of handling things correctly, so that even
> when one turns out to be broken, the others still protect it.

Fair enough.