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Stable kernel updates (security fix)
Stable kernel updates (security fix)
[Kernel] Posted May 7, 2008 12:53 UTC (Wed) by corbet
The 2.6.25.2, 2.6.24.7, and 2.4.36.4 stable kernel updates have been released. They contain a single fix for a "pretty nasty" security hole in the filesystem locks code. The curious can see the full commit with description in Viroese: "fcntl_setlk()/close() race prevention has a subtle hole - we need to make sure that if we *do* have an fcntl/close race on SMP box, the access to descriptor table and inode->i_flock won't get reordered."