Greg KH wrote:

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>

commit 5189fa19a4b2b4c3bec37c3a019d446148827717 upstream.

There is only one error code to return for a bad user-space buffer
pointer passed to a system call in the same address space as the
system call is executed, and that is EFAULT.

I don't think this has the potential to cause regressions, and it
certainly makes things saner, so from that point of view it looks
good.  But I am still wondering how it matches the following
criterion:

 - It must fix a problem that causes a build error (but not for things
   marked CONFIG_BROKEN), an oops, a hang, data corruption, a real
   security issue, or some "oh, that's not good" issue.  In short, something
   critical.

Can someone enlighten me?

Part of the reason I am asking is to figure out whether the patch
ought to be applied to 2.6.32.y, too.

Thanks,
Jonathan