Re: Security fixes for 4.4

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On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 12:29 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 09:10:46PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Please apply the attached backported patches to 4.4-stable.  The
> > upstream commits are:
> > 
> > 06bd3c36a733 ext4: fix data exposure after a crash
> 
> This patch did not apply, and when I worked at it by hand to apply, it
> then broke the build with:
> 	fs/ext4/inode.c: In function ‘ext4_map_blocks’:
> fs/ext4/inode.c:669:17: error: ‘EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_ZERO’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_PRE_IO’?
>        !(flags & EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_ZERO) &&
>                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I attached a mailbox with backported versions of all of these.  The
inline list was just for reference.

> As Ted didn't provide this on the list of ext4 patches to backport to
> 4.4 in the past, I'm a bit hesitant to take this now.  Are you sure it
> is needed?

The Fixes field refers to a commit that went into 3.8, so if that's
correct then yes this is needed.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.




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