Re: patch remove-broken-ptrace-special-case-code-from-file-mapping.patchqueued to -stable tree

[Chuck Ebbert]

On 11/02/2007 12:58 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:48:34AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, gregkh@xxxxxxx wrote:
>>> This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled
>>>
>>>      Subject: Remove broken ptrace() special-case code from file mapping
>> Hmm. I think my patch is good, but Nick's patch is probably safer for a 
>> stable release.
>>
>> Mine cleans things up, and removes a rather nasty special case entirely. 
>> But in the process, it changes user-visible behaviour (for the better, I 
>> think, but still).
>>
>> Now, probably nobody cares about the behaviour change, but Nicks patch 
>> fixes the old broken special case instead of removing it.
>>
>> Now, it might be perfectly fine to just queue this one on the assumption 
>> that nobody will really care, and doing a cleanup is better. But I wanted 
>> to point out the (small) danger.
> 
> I don't see Nick's patch in your tree, and I'd like to keep in sync
> wherever possible :)
> 
> Unless Nick really objects, and then I'll drop yours and use his, but I
> don't think that Duane verified that his patch fixed the issue.
> 

I put Nick's in Fedora, so it had better work...  ;)

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