On Tue, 03 Jul 2018 14:45:15 +0800 Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Initial patch contributed by Tomas Bortoli. > > The autofs subsystem does not check that the "path" parameter is > present for all cases where it is required when it is passed in > via the "param" struct. > > In particular it isn't checked for the AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_OPENMOUNT_CMD > ioctl command. > > To solve it, modify validate_dev_ioctl() function to check that a > path has been provided for ioctl commands that require it. > > Signed-off-by: Tomas Bortoli <tomasbortoli@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reported-by: syzbot+60c837b428dc84e83a93@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx So who is the primary author of this? I'm assuming "Tomas" from the signoff order? The way of signifying this is to put the other author's From: line right at the top of changelog. I assume this is a root-only bug, so we don't need to backport the fix?
