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Couple of kernel issues


From: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo () kernel sg>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:20:00 +0800

1) oom: fix the unsafe usage of badness() in proc_oom_score()
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582068
http://git.kernel.org/linus/b95c35e76b29ba812e5dabdd91592e25ec640e93
upstream commit 28b83c51 (v2.6.32-rc1) introduced the problem.

2) tty: release_one_tty() forgets to put pids
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582076
http://git.kernel.org/linus/6da8d866d0d39e9509ff826660f6a86a6757c966
Not sure this issue can be triggered by a non-privileged user.

Not requesting CVE names for these as these did not affect our supported kernels. Just FYI.

Thanks, Eugene


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