[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "security: fix typo in security_task_prctl" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Nov 12 17:52:27 UTC 2015


On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 09:33:59AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Luis Henriques
> <luis.henriques at canonical.com> wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
> >
> >     security: fix typo in security_task_prctl
> >
> > to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree
> > which can be found at:
> >
> >     http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue
> >
> > This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt20.
> 
> FWIW, this patch fixes a bug in ambient capabilities, which are new in
> 4.3.  I'm not aware of any other observable effect of this patch at
> all, so as far as I know, it doesn't fix an actual bug in older
> kernels.
> 
> It's Obviously Correct (TM), but it could be safely omitted from these trees.

Great, thanks.  I'll just drop the patch from the 3.16 queue.

Cheers,
--
Luís




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