On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 13:29 -0700, dann frazier wrote: > The fix for CVE-2008-5029[1], part of 2.6.26.8, changes the ABI. > We have verified that this issue affects the etch kernels as well and > I'm currently testing a backport for 2.6.18. > > Because this affects a significant number of symbols, it doesn't look > to me like a safe thing to ignore w/ the #ifdef __GENKSYMS__ trick, so > its looking like we need to increment the ABI for the stable kernels, > and perhaps the lenny kernel. Do others on the team have a different > opinion? > > [1] > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.26.y.git;a=commitdiff;h=1e675381c2c443e84ba7bea055017ded1ac8f816
I don't believe it is valid for external modules to allocate either of those structures. So if we put the additional members at the ends of those structures instead of the beginning/middle there may be no need to increment the ABI. Ben.
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