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