The patch titled Subject: exec-increase-binprm_buf_size-to-256-fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is exec-increase-binprm_buf_size-to-256-fix.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/exec-increase-binprm_buf_size-to-256-fix.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/exec-increase-binprm_buf_size-to-256-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: exec-increase-binprm_buf_size-to-256-fix update comment, per Kees Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/exec.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/exec.c~exec-increase-binprm_buf_size-to-256-fix +++ a/fs/exec.c @@ -1563,7 +1563,7 @@ static void bprm_fill_uid(struct linux_b /* * Fill the binprm structure from the inode. - * Check permissions, then read the first 128 (BINPRM_BUF_SIZE) bytes + * Check permissions, then read the first BINPRM_BUF_SIZE bytes * * This may be called multiple times for binary chains (scripts for example). */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are exec-increase-binprm_buf_size-to-256.patch exec-increase-binprm_buf_size-to-256-fix.patch