On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 02:52:15PM -0300, Paulo Alcantara wrote:
> Steven French <Steven.French@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > This may not be needed for 5.15 and 5.10 and 5.4 (or other releases without 2d046892a493 cifs: improve symlink handling for smb2+). I do see "cifs: improve symlink handling for smb2+" in 6.0 and 6.1 e.g. so the fix " cifs: prevent copying past input buffer boundaries" makes sense for those (i.e. to be included in 6.0 and 6.1).
>
> Yes, the commit
>
> 9ee2afe5207b ("cifs: prevent copying past input buffer boundaries")
>
> should be a prerequisite for
>
> 76894f3e2f71 ("cifs: improve symlink handling for smb2+")
>
> Users have reported[1] crashes without having that commit in SMB2+
> mounts.
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216895
I'm confused. I've dropped the referenced commit from 5.15, 5.10, and
5.4 now. If I have missed anything that is still needed in those trees,
please resend the git ids.
thanks,
greg k-h
