[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "security: fix typo in security_task_prctl" has been added to staging queue
Andy Lutomirski
luto at amacapital.net
Thu Nov 12 17:33:59 UTC 2015
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.
--Andy
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