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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [34/44] Limit sysctl_tcp_mem and sysctl_udp_mem initializers
 to prevent integer overflows.
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 20:16:56 -0800
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	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, stable-review@kernel.org,
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On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 05:22:34PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > From: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
> >
> > [ Problem was fixed differently upstream. -DaveM ]
> 
> Gaah. I'd really like to see more of a description for things like
> this. A commit ID for the alternate fix, or at least a few words about
> the different fix or reason why upstream doesn't need the stable
> commit.

I'll let David confirm this, he's the one who sent it to me :)

thanks,

greg k-h