Shocking [LWN.net]

Shocking

Posted Jul 18, 2008 6:21 UTC (Fri) by viro (subscriber, #7872)
In reply to: Shocking by viro
Parent article: Kernel security problems: a response

PS: FWIW, equivalent bug on the Linux side is instructive.  It had been
_mostly_ fixed about 3 years ago.  By patch that had completely missed
a) SMP ordering issues making the fix incomplete
b) similar hole in another turd (dnotify instead of FPOSIX locks)
and...
c) all security implications.

And having talked to the guy who'd done the original changeset I'm
fairly sure that this was no coverup...

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Shocking

Posted Jul 18, 2008 11:24 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

In the past PaXTeam et al have said that intent doesn't matter. As far as 
I can tell this equates to 'it's a coverup if we say it is', and you can't 
argue with people like that (as I am learning).

(For people who complain so loudly about definitions they play very fast 
and loose with theirs.)