Re: [PATCH] disallow modular capabilities

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Jan 04 2005 - 16:38:06 EST




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 ;)

Linus
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