On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:41:05PM -0500, Michael Krufky wrote: > Michael Krufky wrote: > > Greg KH wrote: > > > >>>> I'll go through the archives and see if there's enough to do a .18 > >>>> release (and the patches are serious enough to warrent it.) > >>> Actually, I have a few more -stable patches for both 2.6.18.y and > >>> 2.6.19.y, if > >>> you don't mind holding off a day or two (wont have time to prepare these > >>> until > >>> tomorrow evening)... One of them is a security fix, that allows a > >>> non-root user > >>> to hang the kernel given the correct circumstances. > >> Ok, that's serious enough :) > >> > >> I'll wait for your patches. > >> > >> thanks, > >> > >> greg k-h > > > > I've uploaded the remaining pending v4l/dvb -stable patches for both > > 2.6.18.y > > and 2.6.19.y to the following locations: > > > > http://linuxtv.org/~mkrufky/stable/2.6.18.y/ (8 patches) > > > > and > > > > http://linuxtv.org/~mkrufky/stable/2.6.19.y/ (5 patches) > > > > Using the mailer at my current location, I am unable to send patches > > inline, and > > I won't have the time for it this evening. In the interest of saving time, > > I > > figured that sending them to you in this method is good enough. If you > > still > > need for me to send them via email inline, please let me know. > > Greg & Chris, > > I haven't heard from either of you about these patches, nor have I seen any > update to the stable-queue. > > Just for clarification, the security fix patch, that prevents a non-root user > from hanging the kernel is the patch entitled, > > "V4L: buf_qbuf: fix videobuf_queue->stream corruption and lockup" > > ...as per Mauro's description, here: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg113820.html
Thanks, I'll be flushing out the stable queue later on tonight and will pick up all of these patches. greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
