Re: [stable] Re: [patch 4/7] sysfs: Signedness problem

From: Dave Jones
Date: Fri Oct 07 2005 - 19:15:24 EST


On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 05:07:20PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 08:02:52PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 04:54:50PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > > Please consider for next 2.6.13, it is a minor security issue allowing
> > > users to turn on drm debugging when they shouldn't...
> > >
> > > This fell through the cracks. Until Josh pointed me at
> > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107893
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > For those scratching their heads, the subject line came
> > about as a result of my following up an older issue.
> > This has nothing to do with signedness of course :-)
>
> Heh, ok, care to suggest a better Subject: ?

"Fix incorrect permissions on DRM debug sysfs entry" ?

Dave

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