On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 09:29:06PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Hmm. I just realized when I saw Sasha's autoselect patches flying by > that the floppy ioctl fixes didn't get marked for stable, but they > probably should be. > > There's four commits: > > da99466ac243 floppy: fix out-of-bounds read in copy_buffer > 9b04609b7840 floppy: fix invalid pointer dereference in drive_name > 5635f897ed83 floppy: fix out-of-bounds read in next_valid_format > f3554aeb9912 floppy: fix div-by-zero in setup_format_params > > that look like stable material - even if I sincerely hope that the > floppy driver isn't critical for anybody. > > I leave it to the stable people to decide if they care. I don't think > the hardware matters any more, but I could imagine that people still > use it for some virtual images and have a floppy device inside a VM > for that reason. Thanks for the reminder, I'll queue these up for the next round of stable releases after the next ones go out in a day or so. greg k-h
