From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933773AbXCTEHa (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:07:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933972AbXCTEHa (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:07:30 -0400 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:48362 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933773AbXCTEH3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:07:29 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:05:07 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Chris Wright Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, Justin Forbes , Zwane Mwaikambo , "Theodore Ts'o" , Randy Dunlap , Dave Jones , Chuck Wolber , Chris Wedgwood , Michael Krufky , Chuck Ebbert , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, bunk@stusta.de, "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [patch 03/31] Fix user copy length in ipv6_sockglue.c Message-ID: <20070320040507.GA17101@kroah.com> References: <20070319213047.710101653@mini.kroah.org> <20070319213729.GE9261@kroah.com> <20070319220125.GD10574@sequoia.sous-sol.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070319220125.GD10574@sequoia.sous-sol.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 03:01:25PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > * Greg KH (gregkh@suse.de) wrote: > > From: Chris Wright > > > > [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. Ok, thanks for letting me know, it is now dropped. greg k-h