Re: [ 03/42] TTY: fix atime/mtime regression

2013-04-30 Thread Wolfram Gloger
Hi, >To revert to the old behaviour while still preventing attackers to >guess the password length, we update the timestamps in one-minute >intervals by this patch. Sorry if I miss something, but isn't this an issue that should be very obviously fixed in user space? Only user space knows whether

[ 03/42] TTY: fix atime/mtime regression

2013-04-29 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Jiri Slaby commit 37b7f3c76595e23257f61bd80b223de8658617ee upstream. In commit b0de59b5733d ("TTY: do not update atime/mtime on read/write") we removed timestamps from tty inodes to fix a secur