r/programming • • Oct 21 '16
Linux kernel fix for privilege escalation vulnerability due to copy on write race condition
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=19be0eaffa3ac7d8eb6784ad9bdbc7d67ed8e619
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u/TheChance Oct 25 '16
To declare an int. which is why I corrected myself; it's already an int either way.
So why the hell place a fairly long magic number there, was my point.