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From: Peter Palfrader

Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 24/46] Fix broken ownership of /proc/sys/ files

Date: Monday, November 17, 2008 - 4:45 pm

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

quoted text> On Monday, 17 of November 2008, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:09:00PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:15:47PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > 2.6.27-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> > > > ------------------
> > > > 
> > > > From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
> > > > 
> > > > commit 5c06fe772da43db63b053addcd2c267f76d0be91 upstream.
> > > > 
> > > > D'oh...
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> > > > Reported-and-tested-by: Peter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> > > 
> > > It's harmless to include this, but I thought this fixed a regression
> > > that showed up only after 2.6.28-rc4?
> > 
> > I thought I saw a report that it happened for someone using the 2.6.27.y
> > tree as well.
> 
> Yes, 2.6.27(.y) was referred to in the original report.

Yup.  The earliest 2.6.27 I have running anywhere is 2.6.27-rc4 and that
is affected already, as are all the various 2.6.27.y.

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[patch 00/46] 2.6.27.7-stable review, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:13 am)

[patch 01/46] touch_mnt_namespace when the mount flags change, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:14 am)

[patch 02/46] iwlagn: avoid sleep in softirq context, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:14 am)

[patch 03/46] ath5k: fix suspend-related oops on rmmod, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:14 am)

[patch 04/46] ath5k: Fix reset sequence for AR5212 in gene ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:14 am)

[patch 05/46] bnx2x: Removing the PMF indication when unlo ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:14 am)

[patch 06/46] bnx2x: PCI configuration bug on big-endian, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:14 am)

[patch 07/46] bnx2x: Calling netif_carrier_off at the end ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:14 am)

[patch 08/46] ARM: 5329/1: Feroceon: fix feroceon_l2_inv_range, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:14 am)

[patch 09/46] Fix platform drivers that crash on suspend/r ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:14 am)

[patch 10/46] hostap: pad the skb->cb usage in lieu of a p ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:14 am)

[patch 11/46] ACPI: avoid empty file name in sysfs, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:14 am)

[patch 12/46] ACPI: EC: make kernel messages more useful w ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:14 am)

[patch 13/46] hugetlb: make unmap_ref_private multi-size-aware, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:15 am)

[patch 14/46] rtl8187: Add Abocom USB ID, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:15 am)

[patch 15/46] rtl8187 : support for Sitecom WL-168 0001 v4, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:15 am)

[patch 16/46] kbuild: Fixup deb-pkg target to generate sep ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:15 am)

[patch 17/46] block: fix nr_phys_segments miscalculation bug, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:15 am)

[patch 18/46] powerpc/mpic: Fix regression caused by chang ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:15 am)

[patch 19/46] Input: ALPS - add signature for DualPoint fo ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:15 am)

[patch 20/46] memory hotplug: fix page_zone() calculation ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:15 am)

[patch 21/46] r8169: select MII in Kconfig, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:15 am)

[patch 22/46] sony-laptop: ignore missing _DIS method on p ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:15 am)

[patch 23/46] net: fix /proc/net/snmp as memory corruptor, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:15 am)

[patch 24/46] Fix broken ownership of /proc/sys/ files, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:15 am)

[patch 25/46] V4L/DVB (9624): CVE-2008-5033: fix OOPS on t ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:15 am)

[patch 26/46] S390: cpu topology: fix locking, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:15 am)

[patch 27/46] ACPI : Load device driver according to the s ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:15 am)

[patch 28/46] m68k: Fix off-by-one in m68k_setup_user_inte ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:16 am)

[patch 29/46] SCSI: qla2xxx: Return a FAILED status when a ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:16 am)

[patch 30/46] SCSI: qla2xxx: Do not honour max_vports from ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:16 am)

[patch 31/46] SCSI: qla2xxx: Correct Atmel flash-part hand ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:16 am)

[patch 32/46] SCSI: dpt_i2o: fix transferred data length f ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:16 am)

[patch 33/46] dm raid1: flush workqueue before destruction, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:16 am)

[patch 34/46] USB: remove optional bus bindings in isp1760 ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:16 am)

[patch 35/46] USB: gadget: cdc-acm deadlock fix, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:16 am)

[patch 36/46] USB: unusual_devs entry for Argosy USB mass- ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:16 am)

[patch 37/46] USB: Fix PS3 USB shutdown problems, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:16 am)

[patch 38/46] USB: cdc-acm.c: fix recursive lock in acm_st ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:16 am)

[patch 39/46] USB: EHCI: fix divide-by-zero bug, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:16 am)

[patch 40/46] USB: EHCI: fix handling of dead controllers, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:16 am)

[patch 41/46] USB: dont register endpoints for interfaces ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:17 am)

[patch 42/46] ACPI: EC: revert msleep patch, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:17 am)

[patch 43/46] ACPI: EC: wait for last write gpe, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:17 am)

[patch 44/46] ACPI: EC: restart failed command, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:17 am)

[patch 45/46] ACPI: EC: lower interrupt storm treshold, Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:17 am)

[patch 46/46] ACPI: EC: Dont do transaction from GPE handl ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 12:17 am)

Re: [patch 25/46] V4L/DVB (9624): CVE-2008-5033: fix OOPS ..., Mauro Carvalho Chehab, (Mon Nov 17, 6:31 am)

Re: [patch 24/46] Fix broken ownership of /proc/sys/ files, Theodore Tso, (Mon Nov 17, 1:09 pm)

Re: [stable] [patch 24/46] Fix broken ownership of /proc/s ..., Greg KH, (Mon Nov 17, 2:35 pm)

Re: [stable] [patch 24/46] Fix broken ownership of /proc/s ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Mon Nov 17, 3:25 pm)

Re: [stable] [patch 24/46] Fix broken ownership of /proc/s ..., Peter Palfrader, (Mon Nov 17, 4:45 pm)

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