Re: [PATCH] ipc: explicitly clear stack memory in user structs

[Kees Cook]

Hi Linus,

On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 02:46:30PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Kees Cook <kees.cook@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > No one has committed it. I don't know why; I've sent it a few times now.
> 
> You seem to have sent it just to lkml. At least in this case the patch
> itself was not sent to me (only the subsequent replies were), and the
> choice of recipients was fairly odd apart from Andrew (who probably
> _is_ the right person).

I've been avoiding sending minor security issues like this directly to you
or security@xxxxxxxxxx since that probably should be a high-priority
channel.

> 
> I don't quite see where you got the particular collection of people from.

I used scripts/get_maintainer.pl

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team
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