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An ancient kernel hole is closed

An ancient kernel hole is closed

Posted Aug 18, 2010 22:52 UTC (Wed) by msmeissn (subscriber, #13641)
Parent article: An ancient kernel hole is closed

Actual the first fix for this was submitted 6 years ago by Andrea Arcangeli:

http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2004-09/7...

I tried to remember and also read through the comments why it wasn't accepted then (probably due to uglyness), but did not enter history deepy to find out why.


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