[kernel-sec-discuss] r1092 - active

[dannf at alioth.debian.org]

Author: dannf
Date: 2008-01-18 00:03:14 +0000 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008)
New Revision: 1092

Modified:
   active/CVE-2005-0977
Log:
forwarded to 2.4 upstream

Modified: active/CVE-2005-0977
===================================================================
--- active/CVE-2005-0977	2008-01-17 22:49:47 UTC (rev 1091)
+++ active/CVE-2005-0977	2008-01-18 00:03:14 UTC (rev 1092)
@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@
  to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via an invalid address.
 Notes: 
  dannf> 2.4 does look vulnerable, but the 2.6 fix won't work directly because
- 2.4 doesn't have i_size_read().  The 2.6 i_size_read() uses seqlocks, which
- aren't in 2.4, so the port isn't trivial for me.
+ dannf> 2.4 doesn't have i_size_read().  The 2.6 i_size_read() uses seqlocks,
+ dannf> which aren't in 2.4, so the port isn't trivial for me.
+ dannf> Forwarded to Willy Tarreau on 2008.01.17
 Bugs: 303177
 upstream: released (2.6.11)
 linux-2.6: N/A