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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] namei: allow restricted O_CREAT of FIFOs and regular
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 01:28:36PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 7:37 PM, Loic <hackurx@opensec.fr> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please picked up this patch for linux 4.9 and 4.14 (linux 4.4 needs a small modification).
>> Indeed, this code will be beneficial to the GNU/Linux distributions that use a longterm kernel.
>
>Thanks for doing these (and 4.4). It'll be nice to have this available.
>
>Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

This is a hardening patch rather than something that addresses a known
issue, no? Why would it go into stable?

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Thanks,
Sasha