re: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 18:20, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> Is this critical enough for 2.4.21 to go out?  Or can it wait like
> some other fairly serious stuff such as the ext3 fixes?  What about
> the current state of IDE?
> 
> Would it make sense to repackage 2.4.20 into something like 2.4.20-p1
> or 2.4.20.1 with only the critical stuff applied?

If you build your own kernels apply the patch, if you use vendor kernels
then you can expect vendor kernel updates to appear or have already
appeared