Re: Linux 2.6.22.18

From: Florian Weimer
Date: Tue Feb 12 2008 - 13:14:04 EST


* Greg KH:

> the logic is a little different in 2.6.22 and earlier in regards to this
> area of code. This way we are safer.

Your patch doesn't include the CVE-2006-0010 hunk. Is this because
get_user() implies an access_ok() check (while __copy_from_user()
obviously does not)?
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