Re: [PATCH] disallow modular capabilities

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 13:05 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
> > 
> > And I posted this to LKML almost a week ago, and a real fix was posted
> > in response.
> > 
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/28/112
> 
> Well, I realize that it has been on bugtraq, but does that make it a real 
> concern? I'll make the tristate a boolean, but has anybody half-way sane 
> ever _done_ what is described by the bugtraq posting? IOW, it looks pretty 
> much like a made-up example, also known as a "don't do that then" kind of 
> buglet ;)

Well, a buglet is still a type of bug ;-)

What's wrong with Serge's patch?  I don't see any downside.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/29/59

Lee

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