On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 10:29:26AM +0200, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 2:10 PM <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > audit: Fix extended comparison of GID/EGID > > > > to the 4.18-stable tree which can be found at: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > > > The filename of the patch is: > > audit-fix-extended-comparison-of-gid-egid.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-4.18 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > > IIRC Paul didn't want this patch to go to stable (he asked me to > remove the Cc: stable@... line), since the bug has been there for a > long time and any user affected by it either doesn't care or might > actually (maybe unknowingly) rely on it. I still kept the Fixes: line > so it is clear which commit introduced the bug. > > Paul, any comments? > > In any case, if you decide to push this patch into stable (note that > it is queued also for 4.14, 4.9, 4.4, and 3.18), then make sure to > include also commit 4b09791ba059 ("cred: conditionally declare > groups-related functions") to avoid build errors with > CONFIG_MULTIUSER=n and CONFIG_AUDIT_SYSCALL=y. It is a non-functional > commit for the rest of the kernel. I've now dropped this from all of the stable queues, thanks. greg k-h
