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This issue may also affect other LSMs.\n\nThis change avoids the unnecessary privilege check and resolves the\nsleeping function warning without any loss of information.", "affected": [ { "vendor": "Linux", "product": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "versions": [ { "version": "3a6f33d86baa8103c80f62edd9393e9f7bf25d72", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "86d946f3f9992aaa12abcfd09f925446c2cd42a2" }, { "version": "3a6f33d86baa8103c80f62edd9393e9f7bf25d72", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "64b2d32f22597b2a1dc83ac600b2426588851a97" }, { "version": "3a6f33d86baa8103c80f62edd9393e9f7bf25d72", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "cddc76b165161a02ff14c4d84d0f5266d9d32b9e" } ] }, { "vendor": "Linux", "product": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "versions": [ { "version": "6.2", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThan": "6.2" }, { "version": "6.6.70", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*" }, { "version": "6.12.9", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*" }, { "version": "6.13", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix", "lessThanOrEqual": "*" } ] } ] } } }