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

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On 1/14/21 7:43 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 05:55:13PM -0800, 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?
> 
> 5.4 didn't support IORING_OP_MADVISE and 4.19 didn't have io_uring to
> begin with, how is this an issue on those branches?

Good point on 5.4, I didn't even think of that. So yeah, doesn't seem
like it's applicable to any of those kernels?

-- 
Jens Axboe




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