On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 01:11:18PM -0700, Todd Poynor wrote:
> Thanks! A couple more follow-on fixes for sg race conditions are now
> in the linux-next tree (via linux-scsi), in case it's appropriate to
> also queue these for linux-stable trees now or after 4.14 release:
>
> commit 8d26f491116feaa0b16de370b6a7ba40a40fa0b4
> Author: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Aug 15 21:48:43 2017 -0700
>
> scsi: sg: recheck MMAP_IO request length with lock held
>
> commit 6a8dadcca81fceff9976e8828cceb072873b7bd5
> Author: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Aug 15 22:41:08 2017 -0700
>
> scsi: sg: protect against races between mmap() and SG_SET_RESERVED_SIZE
>
As per:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
I have to wait until they hit Linus's tree, and ideally, show up in a
-rc release, before I can add them to a stable tree.
thanks,
greg k-h