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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:01:25 -0700
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [patch 03/31] Fix user copy length in ipv6_sockglue.c
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* Greg KH (gregkh@suse.de) wrote:
> From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
> 
> [IPV6] fix ipv6_getsockopt_sticky copy_to_user leak
> 
> User supplied len < 0 can cause leak of kernel memory.
> Use unsigned compare instead.

You can drop this one.  It's dependent on a patch
that is not in 2.6.20.

thanks,
-chris