On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 11:23:28PM +0530, Sumit Semwal wrote: > Hi Greg, > > While looking at the Ubuntu Xenial patches, I came across two patches from > Linus, written last year around 4.6 time frame, that are used as a fix for > CVE-2015-8944. The patches look stable-worthy to me, but were not backported > to 4.4, hence sending for your review. > > Also, another patch for vlan that looks useful, if you could please review and > merge to your stable tree? > > These have been build-tested with x86 and arm64 allmodconfig. They apply > cleanly on top of 4.4.79, and are present in 4.9.y+. Now applied, with the correct git commit id... thanks, greg k-h