On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 11:57:17AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:29 AM <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >
> > readdir: make user_access_begin() use the real access range
> >
> > to the 5.4-stable tree [...]
>
> It's probably a good idea to backport
>
> 2c6b7bcd7472 ("readdir: be more conservative with directory entry names")
>
> to stable too. I think all the previous filldir sanity checking
> patches got put into stable earlier, so it should apply just fine.
>
> But it's not a big deal. It's a fix for something that I don't think
> will generally happen in practice even with filesystem corruption, but
> it also should be a very safe change for the same reason.
Ok, good catch, will go add that now, thanks for letting me know.
greg k-h
