[Users] Problem with patch by openvz, where should I report that?

Dariush Pietrzak ml-openvz-eyck at kuszelas.com
Sat Sep 15 05:11:27 EDT 2007


The patch is: core-dumping unreadable binaries via PT_INTERP
it's described as:

"
From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan at openvz.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:57:16 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] core-dumping unreadable binaries via PT_INTERP
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.20-rc7^0~60
X-Git-Url:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=1fb844961818ce94e782acf6a96b92dc2303553b

[PATCH] core-dumping unreadable binaries via PT_INTERP

Proposed patch to fix #5 in
http://www.isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0017-binfmt_elf.txt

....
Check for MAY_READ like binfmt_misc.c does.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan at openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
"

and when applied to 2.6.18 ovz028stab039.1, it stops my kernels
from booting ( they fail to find root filesystem in initrd and
hang there waiting for it to appear ).
 Where do I report it ( or maybe how can I check if this has been
fixed in the meantime? )

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