There was a new security announcement a couple days ago regarding the devfs subsystem in FreeBSD. The announcement is here: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:17.devfs.asc
My question is regarding the upgrade and patch description. I am running 5.4_RELEASE-p4. The alert suggests either patching and rebuilding the kernel or upgrading to 5.4-RELEASE-p5. If I decide to upgrade my source, would it be sufficient (and safe) to just rebuild the kernel, or do I still need to rebuild world? The only files changed between my last build and this one are src/UPDATING src/sys/conf/newvers.sh src/sys/fs/devfs/devfs_vnops.c And for such a small change (I checked the patch, it's literally a 2 line change - sanity check of parameters for the defvs_mknod() call - plus commentary), would it really be necessary to go through the mergemaster process? (from my POV, this is the most tedious and error prone part of the whole process). TIA Lou -- Louis LeBlanc FreeBSD-at-keyslapper-DOT-net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) Please send off-list email to: leblanc at keyslapper d.t net Key fingerprint = C5E7 4762 F071 CE3B ED51 4FB8 AF85 A2FE 80C8 D9A2 Tact, n.: The unsaid part of what you're thinking.
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