Re: Fix CVE-2020-29372 in 4.19 and 5.4

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On 1/14/21 6:55 PM, Saied Kazemi wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> To fix CVE-2020-29372 in COS kernel versions 4.19 and 5.4, we
> cherry-picked the commit "mm: check that mm is still valid in
> madvise()" (bc0c4d1e176e) that Jens introduced in kernel version 5.7.0
> into our kernel sources.  The commit is small and the cherry-pick was
> successful for both COS kernels versions.
> 
> Because COS 4.19 and 5.4 kernels track 4.19.y and 5.4.y respectively,
> can you please cherry-pick the commit to those stable branches?

In terms of io_uring, 4.19 should not be a concern as it wasn't available
in that kernel.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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