Hi Vivek, On 7/1/19 8:32 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:45:40AM -0700, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This patchset includes a few backported fixes for the 4.4 stable tree. >> I would appreciate if you could kindly consider including them in the >> next release. >> >> Thank you! >> >> Regards, >> Srivatsa >> >> --- >> >> Gen Zhang (2): >> ip_sockglue: Fix missing-check bug in ip_ra_control() >> ipv6_sockglue: Fix a missing-check bug in ip6_ra_control() >> >> Vivek Goyal (1): >> ovl: modify ovl_permission() to do checks on two inodes > > Hi Srivatsa, > > Curious, why are you backporting above patch. These changes were done in > a series primarily to support SELinux with overlay. Are you fixing a > particular issue with this single patch? > Sorry for the late reply. I backported this patch because it fixes CVE-2018-16597. Regards, Srivatsa
