[PATCH]: PowerPC: make sure the rtas stop-self token is defined.

Linas Vepstas linas at austin.ibm.com
Sat Nov 11 11:52:49 EST 2006


On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 10:55:09AM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Linas Vepstas writes:
> 
> > I presume this looks reasonable, please apply.
> 
> OK, is this a fix for a bug that needs to be fixed before 2.6.19 is
> release?

Probably not. This was uncovered during "unusual" testing, with user
catting values int sysfs files.  Since you need to be root to do this,
I don't think its a security flaw.

--linas



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