On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 8:00 AM, Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 01:28:36PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 7:37 PM, Loic <hackurx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Please picked up this patch for linux 4.9 and 4.14 (linux 4.4 needs a >>> small modification). >>> Indeed, this code will be beneficial to the GNU/Linux distributions that >>> use a longterm kernel. >> >> >> Thanks for doing these (and 4.4). It'll be nice to have this available. >> >> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > This is a hardening patch rather than something that addresses a known > issue, no? Why would it go into stable? Correct. Greg has stated that he'd take backported hardening patches if there was someone to support them. (If Loic can't commit to that, I can.) -Kees -- Kees Cook
