Roman Drahtmueller wrote:
There is a lot of work in these kernels - with more than 1000 kernel modules and 100MB+ code to compile, there are many ways that errors happen. Keep in mind that the SuSE kernels contain code that is not present in the official kernel tree (but might appear there in the future).
That's exactly why I like the SuSE kernels :-)
Concerning the fixes: There are multiple flaws in there, yes. But if you worry about losing some bytes of memory if you unplug a joystick (just a demonstrative example) and consider this a security problem, I can't help you.
Well, don't get me wrong... I didn't invertigate much, just seeing the hint for the fix for the 2.4.19 kernel and looking at this specific point without reading much about the vulnerability. It's just that you have an unconfident feeling when Heise writes about a kernel bug :-) I know that the SuSE kernels provide much stuff which is not official and often enough I really needed exactly this, so I will wait for the next release ;-) Best regards, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner mailto:fst@informatik.uni-kiel.de Lehrstuhl f. Programmiersprachen mailto:fsteiner@web.de CAU Kiel, Olshausenstraße 40 Phone: +49 431 880-7265, Fax: -7613 D-24098 Kiel, Germany http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~fst/