Re: [lianyihan@xxxxxx: linux driver infiniband vulnerability report]

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On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 05:38:45PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 01:38:17PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 01:01:01PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 11:30:00AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > > Thank you for your report!
> > > >
> > > > The syzcaller stuff is all public information so we just push it out to
> > > > the normal email lists.
> > >
> > > We believe that this commit [1] fixes it.
> > >
> > > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/infiniband/core?id=e8980d67d6017c8eee8f9c35f782c4bd68e004c9
> >
> > Any reason you all are not tagging all of these for the stable trees?  I
> 
> The "magic" works so well [1], so I didn't know that stable@ is still needed.
> 
> [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/750057/

Yes it is, if you want to make sure that your patch gets in.  If you
just want to "hope" it shows up, keep what you are doing :(

As proof of this, I just found a syzkaller reported bugfix that didn't
make it into 4.4.y for this very reason.  The distros do not appreciate
that...

thanks,

greg k-h
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