80b9edca1c11ec8118ab30451af9c1d492770c90

Posted Apr 15, 2011 9:55 UTC (Fri) by PaXTeam (guest, #24616)
In reply to: 80b9edca1c11ec8118ab30451af9c1d492770c90 by tcourbon
Parent article: Stable kernel 2.6.38.3

> "privilege escalation" is rather a consequence of something, for instance here a "memory leak".

'memory leak' is rather a consequence of something, for instance here 'forgot to decrement refcount'. you were saying... ? ;)

> And I don't think a commit message is the right place to list all the
> potential issues caused by some issue in the code.

it's a strawman. who talked about 'all the potential issues'? i certainly didn't because i would have run out of space then.

> And your attitude isn't very constructive.

why's that? you didn't know it was a privilege escalation bug before, now you do.

PS: LWN doesn't allow whitespace in usernames, and PaX stands for '[Pa]ge e[X]ec' as a (now) historical reference to the original feature implemented by (what had started out at the time as an actual team of) us, it has nothing to do with elitespeak. but hey, apparently i'm the one with the attitude problem, not you, so it's all c001 ;).