Re: do_brk() -- kernel 2.4.20-24.9.XFS ?

[Jan-Frode Myklebust <janfrode@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:23:27PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> I'd suggest getting Axel's RPM from atrpms... that's what
> I just did for my home system.  :)  It's easy enough
> for us to spin one, but now that Axel is doing this, I'm
> happy to point over there...

I still can't find any updated kernel from Axel's atrpms.
The kernels there seems all to be based on RedHats 2.4.20-20.x
without any mention of extra patches for the do_brk(). 

I'm a bit disappointed that SGI isn't more closely following up on 
security patches or redhat errata kernels. If it's "easy enough", 
why not just do it, and stop pushing a kernel with a serious security 
vulnerability from the project home page?


  -jf