On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 02:34:46PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > > 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> > > > > commit 5189fa19a4b2b4c3bec37c3a019d446148827717 upstream. > > > > There is only one error code to return for a bad user-space buffer > > pointer passed to a system call in the same address space as the > > system call is executed, and that is EFAULT. > > I don't think this has the potential to cause regressions, and it > certainly makes things saner, so from that point of view it looks > good.
"making things sane" is good enough for me :) > Part of the reason I am asking is to figure out whether the patch > ought to be applied to 2.6.32.y, too. Why do you think it should not be? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
