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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:10:10 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>,
	"Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request - kernel: untangle the do_mremap()
	mess

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:38:30AM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote:
> On 01/20/2010 04:41 AM, Josh Bressers wrote:
>> ----- "Eugene Teo"<eugene@...hat.com>  wrote:
>>> There's a pile of upstream commits that fixed issues that can lead to
>>>
>>> user-triggerable panics on supported boxes:
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/msg/895f20870532241e.
>>>
>>> http://groups.google.co.jp/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/8bf22336b1082090
>>
>> I don't think CVE ids can be assigned to this without more information. I'm
>> not knowledgeable enough, nor do I have the time to properly understand
>> this list.
>
> And upstream continues to give us grief...

I have backported everything into the 2.6.32.4 release, so all
should be good now.

thanks,

greg k-h

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