Re: 2.6.1-rc1 affected?

[Markus Hästbacka]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 18:46, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Yup.
> 
Why isn't there any security update to 2.6.0/2.6.1-rc1 out yet, then?
Yes, the patch..
But I think there's corporations who use 2.6.0 and don't read the lkml.

Just a penny for my thoughts..

Regards,
Markus

> I'd actually personally prefer a stronger test than the one in 2.4.24, and 
> my personal preference would be for just disallowing the degenerate cases
> entirely.  I don't see a "mremap away" as being a valid thing to do, since 
> if that is what you want, why not just do a "munmap()"?
> 
> Uli cc'd, to check whether libc could ever use a zero-sized mremap()..
> 
> 		Linus
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Markus Hästbacka <midian at ihme dot org>

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