On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 08:10 +1100, Brian May wrote:
> Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes:
> 
> > 2. Fix for CVE-2016-7796
> 
> 
> Has undefined reference to IN_SET.
> 
> I am guessing I don't need this part of the patch, right?
> 
> -                        if (errno == EAGAIN || errno == EINTR)
> +                        if (!IN_SET(errno, EAGAIN, EINTR))

I assume IN_SET(errno, EAGAIN, EINTR) somehow expands to the equivalent
of the previous condition.  But note there's also a negation in front
of it, and that is needed - the error message should only be logged in
the case where this function previously returned a negative value.

> > 4. pid1-process-zero-length-notification-messages-again.patch
> 
> 
> Just some comments on this patch.
> 
> It looks like this patch does three things
> 
> * It removes "assert(n > 0)".
> 
> * It removes the now unused n parameter from the
>   manager_invoke_notify_message() function.
> 
> * It removes the return(0) if n==0. This looks like the only relevant part.
> 
> For the first two changes, it looks like the
> manager_invoke_notify_message() function and hence the assert was only
> introduced in systemd in the following commit, before tag v209. This was
> not in the wheezy version, so I don't think these parts are required.
[...]

Right.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Every program is either trivial or else contains at least one bug

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