Re: [stable] patchremove-broken-ptrace-special-case-code-from-file-mapping.patchqueued to -stable tree

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 05:52:25PM +0000, Duane Griffin wrote:
> On 02/11/2007, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 11/02/2007 12:58 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > > Unless Nick really objects, and then I'll drop yours and use his, but I
> > > don't think that Duane verified that his patch fixed the issue.
> > >
> >
> > I put Nick's in Fedora, so it had better work...  ;)
> 
> I've tested both patches, and they both fix the problem. So no
> worries, either way :)
> 
> As Linus said, his patch does change the behaviour. I'm not qualified
> to judge how risky that is, however I think that the change is an
> improvement. In fact in my original bug report I suggested the old
> behaviour could be considered buggy and the new behaviour might be
> preferable.

Ok, thanks for letting me know.  I'll stick with Linus's patch for now,
unless someone really complains :)

thanks,

greg k-h
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/