This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled proc: Move fdinfo PTRACE_MODE_READ check into the inode .permission operation to the 6.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: proc-move-fdinfo-ptrace_mode_read-check-into-the-inode-.permission-operation.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.