Re: Security update patch to 2.6.3 for mremap()?

[Diego Calleja García]

El Thu, 19 Feb 2004 22:37:46 +0800 Nur Hussein <obiwan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

>                                                                                                                              I noticed however, that a fix to the same problem in 2.4.25 sent by
> Andrea Arcangeli adds only one line to a different section of code:
>  
> http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/diffs/mm/mremap.c@xxx?nav=cset@1.1136.94.4

AFAIK, the 2.4 path should be this one, shouldn't it?
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/patch@xxxxxx?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-2d|cset@xxxxxx

>                                                                                                                              Is this line missing from 2.6.3, or did Andrew Morton's fixes address
> the problem already?

The 2.6 should be this one (comitted 15 days ago):
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/diffs/mm/mremap.c@xxxx?nav=index.html|src/|src/mm|hist/mm/mremap.c
2.6.3 is safe, it seems

PD: Your mailer is doing very weird things.

	Diego Calleja


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