[grsec] Problem in linux-2.4.31-grsec

[John Logsdon]

Excellent detective work by Heiko and Brad.  

Is this fix reflected in the 2.6 tree or is it only relevent to 2.4?

John

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On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Heiko Hund wrote:

> On Wednesday 10 August 2005 01:32, Brad Spengler wrote:
> > Thank you very much for the detailed report.  I've fixed the problem
> > in CVS, with a modification to kernel/signal.c, so gr_handle_signal
> > won't be called if SI_FROMUSER() fails.  Since you have code that
> > produces the problem, can you verify this fix?
> 
> No iostat starvation since ~2h. I'd say its fixed. Yay!
> 
> Heiko
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